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   Jim Diamond to jayjwa   
   Re: postfix not sending mail in the queu   
   31 Dec 25 16:14:19   
   
   From: zsd@jdvb.ca   
      
   On 2025-12-31 at 14:03 AST, jayjwa  wrote:   
   > Sam  writes:   
   >   
   >> Then the next step up the ladder is DNS resolution. Postfix is not   
   >> going to cache DNS queries by itself. If this was anything other than   
   >> Slackware then my next suggestion would be to uninstall   
   >> systemd-resolved and fix /etc/resolv.conf, which never fails to fix   
   >> these kinds of issues. But, that's not the case here.   
      
   > Is nscd running?   
      
   No.   
      
   > Is /etc/resolvconf.conf in effect (if on Current)?   
      
   Yes in effect, but I am on 15.0.   
      
   > resolvconf.conf will mess with resolv.conf.  Config files to write config   
   > files for simple things. Yes, we are at that level of insanity.   
      
   Don't mention it in public, because someone will want to one-up that by   
   writing config files for config files for config files.   
      
   > getent hosts (whatever host you're looking at)   
      
   That gives me the expected result.  And given that, while a message was   
   stuck in the queue, new messages were happily getting sent, it seems   
   unlikely to me that the addr lookup was failing.   
      
                                   Jim   
      
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