sendmail on 20.04

[Jerry Geis]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 9:41 PM Knute Johnson via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> >     On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 11:38 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> >      > hi All - I have sendmail configured for incoming email.
> >      >
> >      > I send a test email to the box - I have MX records and all that.
> >      > The EMAIL comes to the box - I see it in the mail.log file.
> >      > It says "queued" and not sent/delivered.
> >      >
> >      > Its just a simple test email address - I was expecting that
> sendmail
> >      > would just PUT the new email in the /var/spool/mail/test
> >      >
> >      > The email is in /var/spool/mqueue
> >      >
> >      > how do I get it actually delivered to the mail box ???
> >
> > Thanks for the reply -  based on what you said - I added the email
> > account to the /etc/aliases file
> > ran newaliases command - sent another email and it also says queued and
> > not Sent/Delivered.
> >
> > Thoughts ?
>
> Without knowing more about your setup I can say that queued mail usually
> has a DNS or domain problem.  From what you said I'm guessing that you
> are using the computer with sendmail on it to send and receive? sendmail
> needs to know its domain.  Posting your sendmail.mc would be very
> helpful.  Make sure you have a host name in your /etc/hosts file with an
> address.
>
> Post your sendmail.mc file and describe your network connection and
> exactly how you are trying to send the email.
>
>
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Thanks Everyone for the suggestions.   I was in fact a DNS issue.
Only a primary DNS was entered - and it was not working for some reason.
Once I changed to the secondary (testing) which resolved names - it started
working.
Then I went back and added both pri and sec DNS and continues to work even
though no response on pri DNS on port 53.

Thanks! have a great day.

Jerry
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