From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from femail27.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.17]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15PGK6-0001HA-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:31:02 -0400 Received: from C893988-a.stcla1.sfba.home.com ([24.20.83.148]) by femail27.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010725043057.DDMG553.femail27.sdc1.sfba.home.com@C893988-a.stcla1.sfba.home.com> for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:30:57 -0700 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:38:13 +0000 (/etc/localtime) From: Mike keithley X-Sender: mkeithley@C893988-a.stcla1.sfba.home.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Fetchmail/Sendmail problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is probably off topic but the problem occurs getting mail from this list so I thought I'd ask the experts. I use fetchmail to get mail from shellworld.net (my ISP). Fetchmail negotiates with sendmail to get mail into my local mailbox. Sendmail seems to want to verify that the sender domain is valid and checks a route. the intermittent problem is this: braille.uwo.ca doesn't always have a route and the system waits forever until shellworld's pop server times out. On my mailbox at shellworld, the retrieved message, that wasn't delivered, is marked as read. This problem is intermittent and was very bad around the middle of May. It went away and is now back. I tried "nslookup braille.uwo.ca" and, sure enough, I got "non-existent domain name". So the questions: is there a way I can tell sendmail not to verify a sender's domain? Do I have a network problem? Why is the problem intermittent? I'm attaching part of the fetchmail log pertaining to a message that behaved this way: fetchmail: POP3> RETR 3 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3406 octets reading message 3 of 5 (3406 octets) About to rewrite Return-Path: Rewritten version is Return-Path: About to rewrite From: "Raul A. Gallegos" Rewritten version is From: "Raul A. Gallegos" About to rewrite To: "speakup@braille.uwo.ca" Rewritten version is To: "speakup@braille.uwo.ca" About to rewrite Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Rewritten version is Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca About to rewrite Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Rewritten version is Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM: BODY=7BIT SIZE=3406 *** wait about 60 seconds *** fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 ... Sender domain must resolve fetchmail: SMTP> RSET fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state fetchmail: Saved error is still 451 not flushed fetchmail: POP3> RETR 7 fetchmail: POP3< -ERR POP timeout fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at ns signing off. . . Thanks