Internal sendmail problems

[Mark Blackman]

On 2 Jan 2008, at 13:34, O'Connor, Kevin wrote:

> Lists back working I see or was it just me trying to use Outlook  
> and making a mess of it.
>
>
> Sendmail is not playing nicely delivering to the internal exchange  
> server.
>
>
>
> Deliver mail
>
> Forcing the attempted delivery of all messages with the command / 
> usr/sbin/sendmail -v -q -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf ..
>
> Running /var/spool/mqueue/lBRC8gmg001204 (sequence 1 of 1)
>
> <kevino at MERSEYFIRE.GOV.UK>... Connecting to  
> exchcluster.merseyfire.gov.uk. via esmtp...
>
> <kevino at MERSEYFIRE.GOV.UK>... Deferred: Name server:  
> exchcluster.merseyfire.gov.uk.: host name lookup failure
>
> And sadly that is the problem....
>

* Got the /var/log/maillog around that time? It should be a little  
more specific.
* What does your /etc/hosts look like?

- Mark