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| From | Sam <sam@email-scan.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux.slackware |
| Subject | Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue |
| Date | 2025-12-25 20:34 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <cone.1766712847.26390.136053.1000@ripper.email-scan.com> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <69426af3$1@news.ausics.net> <slrn10kjebg.9ct.zsd@x360.localdomain> <6949c24d$1@news.ausics.net> <slrn10kp0c3.3tn.zsd@x360.localdomain> <slrn10krilc.iag.syl@elvira.therockgarden.ca> |
Sylvain Robitaille writes: > > Dec 16 15:06:17 x360 postfix/smtp[2479]: AA6B21E0B4C: to=<ntg- > context@ntg.nl>, relay=none, delay=19, delays=19/0/0/0, dsn=4.4.3, > status=deferred (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for > name=MY_SMTP_SERVER type=A: Host not found, try again) > > ------------------ > > But this is ... > > Here's a thought ... It won't help solve the problem but it might > help identify the cause ... > > Perhaps just before and just after running "sendmail -v -q" try running > "getent hosts MY_SMTP_SERVER" (with the correct hostname, of course) > and confirm that the system is generally able to resolve the hostname? Postfix is unlikely to be using glibc to resolve hostnames, but rather it's making direct DNS queries, either by doing it itself or using a resolver library. The "type=A" part of the syslog message is a honking clue. In which case, it would be more accurate to reproduce what postfix is doing by running dig: dig MY_SMTP_SERVER a
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Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-12-16 23:06 +0000
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Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-12-25 04:25 +0000
Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2025-12-25 11:52 -0400
Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2025-12-25 23:37 +0000
Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2025-12-25 20:34 -0500
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Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-01-01 15:46 +0000
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Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2025-12-29 20:34 -0400
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Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-17 11:22 -0500
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Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-12-18 16:32 +0100
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Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2025-12-22 17:42 -0400
Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Sylvain Robitaille <syl@therockgarden.ca> - 2025-12-24 22:34 +0000
Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2025-12-24 20:14 -0400
Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2025-12-19 07:54 +0000
Re: postfix not sending mail in the queue Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2025-12-22 18:03 -0400
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