Error messages
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Dec 16 17:21:57 GMT 2003
Your hostname resolution isn't working properly. It is lacking the reverse
PTR records for whatever it is trying to look up.
At 14:23 16/12/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>Thanks, I thought it would be something simple.
>
>I am still getting
><server name> sendmail[27295]: gethostbyaddr<ip address> failed: 1
>for every virtual domain every time an e-mail comes in.
>
>Any other ideas ?
>
>Regards
>
>Nick
>
>
> > You need to do
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
> > to actually kill all the sendmail processes before you start MailScanner.
> > The "chkconfig" commands merely tell it what to do at boot-time,
> > they don't
> > alter the current state of the system at all.
> > When you do
> > ps ax | grep -i mail
> > you should get no MailScanner processes or sendmail processes.
> > Kill off any
> > left running.
> > Then do
>
>---
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