Sendmail is deferring mail

Fri Oct 11 10:56:54 EDT 2002

Sandeep Gupta wrote:

> g9AMFCw02972*      61 Thu Oct 10 17:15 <sandeep at XXX.com>
>                  (host map: lookup (YYY.com): deferred)
>                                        <sandeep at YYY.com>

> From what I've seen, the mail will stay deferred indefinitely.
> If I restart sendmail with "/etc/init.d/sendmail restart", then the
> mail is sent immediately upon restart.
> If I specify the command "sendmail -d8.20 -v -q", then the mail is
> also send immediately.

> Any ideas about why my mail is being deferred?

Do you change /etc/resolv.conf while the daemon is running?

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