Question : Sendmail Queue error

I'm not sure what happen, it looks like another sendmail.cf file was created.  That might have happened when the owner of the server was playing in linuxconf.  anyway, now all of my mail messages are being queue'd up.  When I try and flush them I get the follwoing error message.

WARNING: local host name (linux) is not qualified; fix $j in config file

So i looked at the server name info and fixed that.  Now, it's still queued up.

Everytime i run /usr/lib/sendmail -v -q i get all kinds of stuff


Running XAA01262 (sequence 1 of 42)
... vvm.com: Name server timeout
... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery

Running XAA00971 (sequence 2 of 42)
... MAIL.AUSTIN.CC.TX.US: Name server timeout
... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery



I could really use some idea's on how to correct this problem.

thanks

ttrogden

Answer : Sendmail Queue error

It looks like DNS problem.  
First try nslookup on the machine.  See it uses /etc/hosts or the DNS server in your setup.
If it uses /etc/hosts, then the either the /etc/resolv.conf file is not there or the data is not properly set.
Otherwise check DNS entries in the DNS server.
Good luck