[Ilugc] sendmail config for gmail relaying
- From: rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx (Raja Subramanian)
- Date: Thu Sep 7 22:26:31 2006
On 9/7/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Raja Subramanian wrote:
Sep 7 02:12:03 mithila sm-mta[6014]: k86KflH8006010:
to=<rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<rsubr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(1001/1001), delay=00:00:15, xdelay=00:00:15, mailer=esmtp, pri=30458,
relay=gmail.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: gmail.com.:
host name lookup failure
smtp.gmail.com is a CNAME to gmail-smtp.l.google.com
Sendmail might not like your setting a cname there in the smarthost
Thanks for the tip.
I turned out that I *was* having DNS problems. My DSL router barfed
when trying to fetch MX records (dig -t mx gmail.com failed), but A
records were working perfectly. That settled, my box is now happily
email me output from cron jobs.
My experience is chronicled at:
http://rajasuperman.blogspot.com/2006/09/gmail-as-smarthost-for-fre_115764792412436946.html
- Raja
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