Hello all,

I am in desperate need of a fix for my problem, it is literally driving me up the wall :-/

The problem is i cannot send any emails to another domain on the server, I can however send to a hotmail account or any other account that is not on the server. Recieving emails is fine. I am sending emails from Outlook Express which has ususally worked fine. Something has changed or has caused this problem recently.

I have looked into the maillog and this is the only thing i can see that is an error

May 3 20:48:19 www sendmail[649]: gethostbyaddr(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) failed: 1

Also I thought i would try and restart sendmail but for some reason it wont even shutdown.

[root@www admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
Shutting down Mail Service: sendmail ok
Setting up Mail Service:
[root@www admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
Shutting down Mail Service: sendmail ok
[root@www admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status
sendmail (pid 932) is running...
[root@www admin]#

Also when i Send and Recieve from outlook with an email in my outbox addressed to another domain on the server it does connect but just sits on Sending 1 of 1...


Any help/suggestions would be great!

Thank you

Try mailing the address from the command line (of the server that hosts that address) with the -v flag. Use the following command:

mail -v test@test.com

The output should tell you exactly what the problem is. If you are unable to resolve the issue based on that output, you might try pasting it here so that someone else can look at it for you.