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Operating Systems Solaris Sendmail error delaying relay Post 302403824 by adelsin on Monday 15th of March 2010 01:16:10 AM
Old 03-15-2010
Sendmail error delaying relay

When I try to send mail, sendmail delays a lot. After monitoring syslog, I noticed that sendmail starts with this first message... waits a minute and gives the second message... waits another minute and then sends off the email. How do I correct this in sendmail or completly disable it. I'm sending to an Open-Relay circuit and after sendmail sends it, it works fine.


Code:
Mar 15 03:38:16 solaris-host sendmail[781]: [ID 702911 mail.crit] My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
Mar 15 03:39:16 solaris-host sendmail[781]: [ID 702911 mail.alert] unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name


hostname;domainname displays proper hostnames and domainnames so I don't think this is a problem that is related to /etc/hosts.

any ideas?
Thanks!

---------- Post updated 03-15-10 at 12:16 AM ---------- Previous update was 03-14-10 at 11:32 PM ----------

There were issues regarding /etc/host and /etc/inet/ipnodes. They somehow got unlinked and no longer matched. I corrected the problem, the errors went away and sendmail was no longer delayed. Thanks all.
 

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local.users(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						    local.users(4)

NAME
local.users - Specifies mail recipients on the local host. DESCRIPTION
The local.users file contains a list of user names whose mail is to be delivered to the local host and whose return address is user- name@hostname. Entries in the local.hosts file are in addition to other local users (such as root and postmaster). See sendmail.cf(4) for a description of other local users. You can add entries to this file if the host is configured as a simple client and either of the following is true: The user wants their mail delivered on this machine rather than being forwarded to the mail server. You are adding aliases to the /var/adm/sendmail/aliases file. When the host is configured as a simple client, the alias must be added to this file and the aliases file. A simple client is defined as a host that had the mail system configured using the MailConfig application from the System Management utili- ties or configured using the mailsetup utility's Quick Setup menu. The format of the file is as follows: User names are separated by blanks or new lines. Multiple user name can be specified on a line. Blank lines are ignored. A comment mark (#) ends the line. After modifying the local.users file, you must restart the sendmail daemon to apply the changes. Use the following command: # /sbin/init.d/sendmail restart EXAMPLES
root postmaster rw # A comment followed by an ignored blank line. # Another comment. mariah # Another comment. carey # Leading blanks are acceptable. FILES
Specifies the path name for the file. RELATED INFORMATION
Files: sendmail.cf(4). delim off local.users(4)
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