Hello,
I have a notebook with Debian 3.0 and exim as MTA.
When I boot the system, before I connect to a Lan, I give at the
prompt:
$ mailq
The command returns immediately, giving me the queue of messages. When
I send a message using mutt, it is accepted by the MTA immediately.
Exim is not trying to resolve any domain nor send mail to anyone.
The /etc/resolv.conf is:
search my.office.domain\000
nameserver 10.7.8.21
nameserver 10.11.16.11
The /etc/hosts is:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
192.168.0.1 aprile aprile.localdomain
At the moment the route -n command gives:
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
when I connect to my company Lan and I configure the routing with
Dhclient the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts files are identical, but
the routing table is now:
#route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
10.7.8.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
0.0.0.0 10.7.15.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0
The command
$mailq
hangs a minute (more or less) before returning and I experience the
same behaviour in many other operations involving the MTA (sending a
message, removing a message,...).
Exim tries to resolve the remote MTA and it fails (freezing all
messages in queue). From /var/log/exim/mainlog:
2003-06-18 17:38:39 19Sd2i-0000Ed-00 == cicciopasticcio@???
R=smarthost defer (-1): lookup of host "libero.it" failed in smarthost
router
My company's syadmin don't let anyone making queries in his own
domain!
How may I tell exim not to perform any query nor try to send any message
If I am part of my.office.domain?
thank you in advance,
CdA
