----- Original Message ----- From: "Blessing Kamutande" <Kamutandeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:26 PM Subject: Sendmail failing to resolve IP address of the Smart Host > Hie All, > I have two LAN sites with one site running Exchange 5.5 and this site is the > gateway to the Internet. The problem is the other site is running Sendmail > 8.12.8 and I defined the Exchange as the smart host name being mailserver, > but Sendmail fail to relay mail saying: DEFERRED. Connection time out. Could > not resolve host name. > I have put mailserver in my /etc/hosts file ad I can ping the exchange > server using its name(mailserver). These servers are on the same net i.e > 192.168.1.0 > > What could be the problem and how can I solve it? > > TIA > Regards Snippet that came back from the New Zealand guy was as follows:- Thank's all for taking time in assisting to solve my problem. I found the solution after Bryan , refereed to downloading the source for sendmail. The answer was documented , if not a little ambiguous. The solution to my problem was specifing the following in the submit.mc file. define(`confDIRECT_SUBMISSION_MODIFIERS',`C') Cheers Barry -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
