sendmail can't send to hotmail address

[mike at bilow.com (Michael Bilow)]

There is a setting available in sendmail.cf ("O DeliveryMode=defer") which
is specifically intended to acocmplish this.  All client mail is queued
and DNS lookups are deferred until the queue run for the delivery attempt.
This is equivalent to specifying "-odd" on the command line.

Whether this is a good idea is debatable.

-- Mike


On 2002-07-23 at 13:52 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> The reason I ask is that I am installing SuSE 8.0 on my second drive. For 
> the most part, sendmail does what I want, but it is the delay at the client 
> level which is annoying. If Postfix simply accepts the message quickly 
> regardless of the state of the Internet, then it may be worth it for me to 
> simply switch to Postfix. 
>
> On 23 Jul 2002 at 13:52, Bob Keyes wrote:
> > I can't answer that one, but I can tell you qmail is working really well
> > here. But I had to switch back to linux because it doesn't work at all on
> > openbsd 3.1
>