+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #166680 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: Unsuccessfully attempted to set up a SMART_HOST directive on a host with no DNS access using the supplied RedHat sendmail.mc. After several days of troubleshooting, I realized that the define line in the supplied RedHat sendmail.mc was missing the final dnl for the line, causing the compiled sendmail.cf to be improperly formed. The line in question is: dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs to dnl # be sent out through an external mail server: dnl # dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider') This final line needs to be distributed as: dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider') dnl Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install sendmail 2. Uncomment SMART_HOST directive and edit mailserver 3. Start sendmail and send mail to off-host address. Actual Results: Mail delivery fails with host lookup deferred. Expected Results: Mail delivered via relay defined in SMART_HOST directive. Additional info:
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0252.html