From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: standard installation of postfix runs smtp outgoing in a chrooted environment (in /etc/postfix/master.cf) However the chrooted /var/spool/postfix/etc directory does not include resolv.conf, so postfix's dns lookups fail. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure postfix 2. send mail to the dest machine using smtp 3. run mailq and look for Name service error for bigpond.com: Host not found, try again 4. copy /etc/resolv.conf to /var/spool/postfix/etc 5. force queue flush with /usr/sbin/postqueue -f 6. run mailq again, check it delivers. Actual Results: mail does not get delivered remotely, which is nasty. Additional info: I run dnscache and iptables firewall on the same box, with 2 NIC's. Its possible that interacts somewhere.
RHL 7.3 fixes this