Sorry, I couldn't find any host named mail........ (#5.1.2)

Hello!

I can send or forward mail seemingly successfully from my mail client,
Thunderbird. But shortly thereafter, I'll receive this failure
message, saying, "Sorry, I couldn't find any host named
mail.............com. (#5.1.2)". Could someone hazard a guess as to
what maybe going on.

Thanks!

adamsmth070@gmail.com writes:

> I can send or forward mail seemingly successfully from my mail client,
> Thunderbird. But shortly thereafter, I'll receive this failure
> message, saying, "Sorry, I couldn't find any host named
> mail.............com. (#5.1.2)". Could someone hazard a guess as to
> what maybe going on.

If that's really what the message says, "mail.............com". I'd
guess that actual name contains non-ascii characters that qmail-send
is rendering as ".". At any rate, qmail-remote isn't able to find an
IP address for the domain.

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Dave Sill Author, The qmail Handbook
Oak Ridge National Lab, IT Services <http://lifewithqmail.org/>