Complete sendmail newbie here...
I've been trying to get mailing to work in PHP and
I've root caused it down to sendmail's complaint about "Name server timeout":
>sendmail -t -v
>From:
[email protected]
>To:
[email protected]
>.
gmail.com: Name server timeout
[email protected]... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
[email protected]... queued
So it sounds like a DNS issue? But
I can do a "dig mx gmail.com" and it will query successfully.
Here's what confuses me...
I can get sendmail to work two other ways. The first way is through telnet:
>telnet 127.0.0.1 25
>Helo me
>Mail from:
[email protected]
>Rcpt to:
[email protected]
>.
message sent
And the second way is by explicitly appending the sendmail.cf, but this is strange because it's the exact same file
I use to configure sendmail to begin with:
>sendmail -t -v -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
But none of these solutions will resolve my PHP mailing...
I am clueless as to what is going on... appreciate any
help.