Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!kannel!Kimmo.Suominen From: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Sendmail problem in HP-UX 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 90 01:45:43 GMT References: Sender: kim@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: cph@zurich.ai.mit.edu's message of 18 Oct 90 13:52:40 GMT Disclaimer: These are my opinions unless otherwise stated >>>>> On 18 Oct 90 13:52:40 GMT, cph@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson) said: Chris> In any case, this problem is causing many headaches for all of our Chris> users. If anyone has a solution, I'd appreciate it -- my only other Chris> alternative is to find another mailer and use that instead, but I Chris> don't want to be in the position of maintaining another mailer. I've been using a Sendmail 5.61 + IDA 2.3 port ever since 3.10, which didn't have Domain Name Service. I also recall recompiling the resolver library with a longer timeout period, because of many timeouts (perhaps Finland is so far away). However, timeouts don't return mail to the sender, but leave it queued for the next queue run. The error code shown on mailq is "Name Server Lookup Failure". When I got HP-UX 7.0 I continued to use this ported Sendmail because of it's IDA enhancements. I had to recompile it, but I can't recall whether I used the system resolver or the ported one (sorry). You can get all this stuff from a) nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100] /pub/unix/hpux/network b) lut.fi [128.214.25.8] /unix/network Fetch it preferably from nic.funet.fi, but you can use lut.fi, if you can't reach nic.funet.fi for some strange reason. Everything is set up to compile on 3.10, but should compile on 7.0 as well. I didn't make any changes when recompiling. -- Kim / Internet: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi "That's what I think." / Bitnet: KIM@FINFILES