On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 05:23, Will McDonald wrote:
> The MX for one of our domains, blah.com, pointed at an internal
> Exchange server. Mail relayed to a Sendmail MailScanner which then
> delivered to Exchange for this domain. The domain expired leading to
> all its mail queueing in Sendmail. So far so sensible.
>
> While waiting for the domain to be renewed I setup a mailertable entry
> to bypass DNS and route mail directly to the Exchange server...
>
> blah.com smtp:[192.168.10.10]
>
> I rebuilt mailertable then tried flushing the queue with...
>
> sendmail -q -v -qRblah
>
> ... which resulted in a bunch of "Transient parse error -- message
> queued for future delivery" errors due to DNS resolution failure.
I think files in the queue have already saved the final
destination after all lookups in their control files.
If that was a name when the first attempt failed it
will be a name on the retries.
> I thought mailertable entries bypassed DNS?
I can - or the [name] notation can make it take an
A record first instead of trying for an MX.
> Does Sendmail cache the
> state of the destination for queued messages somehow? In the
> qf${msgid} files in the spool?
Yes, I think that is your problem. An entry in
/etc/hosts should have allowed the delivery to complete,
though.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com