Re: Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Steve George writes: > I'd suggest that you put two nameservers in, one from each ISP, and then > don't change the config. Long term you could write a script to edit your > resolv.conf... The pppconfig in potato does this. > So, in your case it may be better to deliver directly,... Many ISP are

Re: Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-16 Thread Steve George
Hi, On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > > > > Many thanks for this reply. I certainly need some help with this; > tearing out my hair in handfulls! > > > Hi Anthony, > > I'm guessing somewhat here, since I've only used sendmail

Re: Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > Many thanks for this reply. I certainly need some help with this; tearing out my hair in handfulls! > Hi Anthony, > I'm guessing somewhat here, since I've only used sendmail and exim, so > smail might work differently. > > Here are a few comments that might h

Mail refusing to leave my machine

1999-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have two ISPs: Demon and Freeserve. In the last week it has become almost impossible to send out mail (I'm sending this from a different machine which seems to work). It's been slow at times in the past but this is ridiculous. I'm using Slink with smail. I've RTFMd till I'm dizzy and have fiddl