Solaris

Hi Gurus,
I have moved one of my servers(Sol-9) to client site and have an issue trying to send mails from their site through SMTP server in my site.

I get the below error when my server forwards mails to the SMTP server in another domain.

[!]root: mailx -v hari.ganesh@fnis.com
Subject: test
test
EOT
[!]root: fnis.com: Name server timeout
hari.ganesh@fnis.com... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
hari.ganesh@fnis.com... queued

I googled and found this url Sendmail insists on looking up DNS info for destination domain names for sending mail without being in a domain. I did the changed mentioned in it,but still i am getting the below error:

[!]root: mailx -v hari.ganesh@fnis.com
Subject: test
test
EOT
@ /var/spool/clientmqueue
[!]root: hari.ganesh@fnis.com... Deferred: Name server: 172.21.214.14: host name lookup failure

Can somebody let me know how to set up sendmail for a Standalone machine(Sol 9) which uses SMTP services of a SMTP server in another domain and sends mail to addresses in SMTP server's domain?

Thanks
HG

Set up the SMTP server as the smartmail host on the remote machine (Sol9) and add its IP address to the relays db on the SMTP server.

Hi

I tried setting up the smart host (please check config below)but still getting the below error:

Code:

[!]root: grep DS /etc/mail/submit.cf
DS 172.245.0.14
# Return-Receipt-To: header implies DSN request
# DHParameters (only required if DSA/DH is used)
 @ /usr/mail
[!]root: grep DS /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
DS 172.245.0.14
# Return-Receipt-To: header implies DSN request
# DHParameters (only required if DSA/DH is used)
 @ /usr/mail
[!]root: mailx -v hari.ganesh@fnis.com
Subject: Test
test
EOT
 @ /usr/mail
[!]root: hari.ganesh@fnis.com... Deferred: Name server: 172.245.0.14: host name lookup failure

I am quite a newbie in sendmail. please help me out.

Thanks
HG

---------- Post updated at 01:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:19 AM ----------

Hi JGT,

I was able to resolve this issue after i removed the "dns" argument for "hosts" in /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

Serendipity at it's best!!

Thanks to all.

HG