Be warned, your solution of moving dialup.m4 is only a temporary fix,
the problem will recurr in my experience.
My ultimate solution is to use postfix instead of sendmail. As this bug
is completely intolerable - it loses mail forever!!
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[feisty] sendmail unable to automatically determine domai
I'm not on AMD64, although I will be in a couple of weeks.
I have looked further into this and I've found that this problem is caused by
/usr/share/sendmail/dynamic this is sourced by /etc/network/if-up.d/sendmail
and then the /usr/share/sendmail/dynamic update_host() function is run by the
/e
I have reproduced this bug. It exists in Feisty even if you install it
from scratch (ie not upgrade). I'm not sure what the root cause is, but
I can tell you that if you manually edit sendmail.cf to remove line 99
("Dj;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached") and then
restart it doing
