Hello,
I have a notebook with Debian 3.0 and exim version 3.35 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
Do you think the problem may arise because the my.office.domain DNS
doesn't recognise me as part of its own domain?
So, how may I configure my system to be part of my.office.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
