F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

Knute Johnson linux at www.knutejohnson.com
Sun Jun 22 18:32:47 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:17 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> I've got two installations of F9 running, one x86_64 and the other i386. 
>>   They both fail to send email initially but if I restart sendmail they 
>> send fine after that.  I'm using thunderbird and have it configured to 
>> use the local sendmail for sending.  The only thing I've modified in my 
>> sendmail.mc file is the masquerading.  Any ideas where to start looking?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> knute...
>>
>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2107]: alias database /etc/aliases 
>> rebuilt by root
>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2107]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, 
>> longest 10 bytes, 774 bytes total
>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: starting daemon (8.14.2): 
>> SMTP+queueing at 01:00:00
>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: STARTTLS: ServerCertFile missing
>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sendmail[2112]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail 
>> -bd -q1h
>> Jun 22 11:09:54 localhost sm-msp-queue[2121]: starting daemon (8.14.2): 
>> queueing at 01:00:00
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: NOQUEUE: connect from 
>> localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: AUTH: available mech=CRAM-MD5 
>> PLAIN ANONYMOUS DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI 
>> KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: Milter: no 
>> active filter
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 220 
>> localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.2/8.14.2; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 
>> 11:10:43 -0700
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- EHLO 
>> [127.0.0.1]
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 
>> 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], 
>> pleased to meet you
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 
>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-PIPELINING
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-8BITMIME
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-SIZE
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-DSN
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-ETRN
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-AUTH 
>> DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250-DELIVERBY
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 250 HELP
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- MAIL 
>> FROM:<linux at www.knutejohnson.com> SIZE=427
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 050 
>> <linux at www.knutejohnson.com>... Transient parse error -- message queued 
>> for future delivery
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 
>> www.knutejohnson.com: Name server timeout
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 451 4.1.8 
>> Domain of sender address linux at www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve
>> Jun 22 11:10:43 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: 
>> ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<linux at www.knutejohnson.com>, 
>> relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of 
>> sender address linux at www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve
>> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: <-- QUIT
>> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: --- 221 2.0.0 
>> localhost.localdomain closing connection
>> Jun 22 11:10:56 localhost sendmail[2664]: m5MIAhEW002664: 
>> from=<linux at www.knutejohnson.com>, size=427, class=0, nrcpts=0, 
>> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> ----
> is sendmail set to start on boot?

Yes.  That's why I included the log that shows the start of sendmail.

> chkconfig --list sendmail # to review which runlevels it starts on
> chkconfig sendmail on # to have it start on boot

The log above shows it is running but;

[root at knute knute]# /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep sendmail
sendmail       	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off

> it does appear that you've got a DNS issue too...'sender address of
> www.knutejohnson.com does not resolve' is a problem as I see it.

When the computer first starts.  After I restart sendmail it doesn't 
have a problem any more.  This mail was sent from one of the computers 
with the problem.

-- 
Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com




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