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moata_u
Asked: 2013-04-09 14:38:59 +0800 CST

Deferred: Name server host name lookup failure (smart host)

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am using the sendmail to send an email and configure it as the following :
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc

define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp-server')dnl
define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/authinfo')dnl

/etc/mail/authinfo

AuthInfo:smtp-server "U:[email protected]" "P:password" "M:PLAIN"

after that i run the following command :
$ m4 sendmail.mc >sendmail.cf
$ makemap hash authinfo < authinfo
$ /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

and test it with :
/usr/sbin/sendmail -v [email protected] < body.txt

but still cant receive any email ?? and i got the following error 

Deferred: Name server:smtp-server-name: host name lookup failure <br>

i tried i can ping to the smtp server , and i run the command dig smpt-server-name
i cant see any thing wrong ... why i got this message and cant revise an email.

mail

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try:

    define(`SMART_HOST',`[smtp-server]')dnl

    It should turn off lookups for MX records. If it does not help try Ipv4 address inside square brackets.

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