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Subject: RE: Outgoing mail problem
From: Malcolm Tester (MTestercambric.com)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 17:16:33 CDT

I agree with Ronald. Something is either screwy with your C compiler, or
your bind library is bugged. You can try a few things. Liviu Daia had some
good ideas, if you want to install TinyDNS. There are good points/bad
points to that. If you're using bind 4.*, you could try upgrading to 8.*
with it. You could download the latest stable version of gcc (2.95.2 I
think?) and recompile with that.

I'll throw up a copy of RedHat this weekend and see what happens, if you can
tell me the version you're using and any extra rpms.

And btw, to Matthew Hawkins. Please stop trying to prove yourself by
quoting old RFC's and competing with someone else to see who is right. I
think the RFC's are readble enough that any sane person can figure out what
is meant by them. If you don't understand what they mean, then ask. Having
you drudge them up and say what you _think_ they mean, especially on a topic
that centers around a Newbie's problem, not only detracts from the quality
of the solution of the problem, but probably confuses the Newbie to death.
If you believe someone else is mis-quoting an RFC or something to that
nature, then either start a new topic, or take it off the mailing list with
that person.

Regards,
Malcolm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald F. Guilmette [mailto:rfgmonkeys.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 11:52 AM
> To: Dan and Karen Ellrick
> Cc: Liviu Daia; MTestercambric.com; wietseporcupine.org
> Subject: Re: Outgoing mail problem
>
>
>
> In message
> <LOBBLIBFFJBJBFHENGFJOEILCEAA.ellrickhiroshima-cdas.or.jp>, you wro
> te:
>
> >Liviu Daia wrote:
> >> What exactly do you expect us to say? Your claim is simply not
> >> true, Postfix doesn't do that, and never did. You still have a DNS
> >> problem, and you won't be able to send mail until you fix it, no
> >> matter what MTA you'll install.
> >
> >And Malcolm Tester wrote:
> >> To be honest, if you have this problem with postfix, you'll have
> >> it with qmail or anything else.
> >
> >And Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> >>Hey! Maybe none of the rest of us can ssne mail to those
> domains either!
> >
> >Since so many of you have the idea that my problem isn't
> postfix-specific, I
> >ran another test. On Friday, since I hadn't heard from
> folks about this,
> >and couldn't proceed with postfix, I decided to re-install
> sendmail and see
> >if the problem I was having with it went away after my DNS config was
> >thoroughly redone over the last two weeks (because I too was
> convinced for a
> >long time that this postfix thing was really a DNS
> misconfiguration). On
> >Friday I didn't try outbound mail, because I was focused on
> the part that
> >didn't work before - inbound relaying (which still doesn't
> work, but that's
> >another story...). But just for you (and to reassure myself
> as well) I just
> >now logged onto my server and sent mail out successfully, to my home
> >address, which in postfix was giving me "Host not found"
> errors consistently
> >for two weeks. Sendmail works in this regard; postfix
> doesn't. Again, I am
> >not saying it is postfix's fault...
>
> That's good, because it almost certainly isn't.
>
> I suspect that the difference in the two mailers in this case
> must be due
> to one of the following causes:
>
> o Your use of a buggy C compiler.
>
> o Your use of a buggy BIND library.
>
> Note that depending upon how it was all done, you _may_ perhaps have
> linked Postfix with a totally different bind library from the one that
> you linked Sendmail to. (You may perhaps currently have more than one
> edition of the bind library installed on your system.)
>