Transient parse error

[naqi76]

Hi,

I have red hat linux 7.3, and Oracle Collaboration suite installed.
Now OCS has its own email server - unified messaging.
However one of the other applications (that is part of ocs) uses the sendmail command line to send messages - these messages are then handed off to ocs's unified messaging's smtp_in (through rewriting rules).

Now the problem i am facing is, when i test sending an email via the sendmail command line i get the following 2 errors:

sendmail -v naqi@ocs.com

err msg:
ocs.com:Name sever timeout
transient parse error

Basically the hostname of my linux box is 'naqi' whereas the domainname is ocs.com

$hostname
naqi

$domainname
ocs.com

my hosts file has the following entry:

192.168.0.1 naqi.ocs.com naqi naqi01

Why doesn't sendmail realize that ocs.com is its own domain? I don't need sendmail to send off any mail outside of my linux box, i need it to recognize that ocs.com and naqi.ocs.com is the same linux box. Once it does this then it will be able to hand off the message to oracle's smtp_in (which is also on the same box). In essence i don;t need sendmail to be running at all, i just need:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v naqi@ocs.com to work and not give me name server errors
I would appreciate any help in this?

Naqi

 

[RhythmAce]

check in /etc/mail/local-host-names. All local host and domain names should be listed in there. The path may be different on your system.

 

[naqi76]

Thanks, i'll check that out, i did a search on the forums and came accross a post that mentioned setting the following in the sendmail.cf file

O ResolverOptions=-DNSRCH

that dint seem to fix the problem.

naqi

 

[naqi76]

Thanks for the input, i was able to get rid of the error,
by doing the following:

created a service.switch file, and entered the following:

hosts files
aliases files

This disabled dns resolution and removed the transient parse error, now i have another error that needs looking into - back to the old drawing board

Naqi