Re: [Dovecot] v2.1.rc5 (85a9b5236b6c) Error: lmtp client: DNS lookup of $FQDN failed: connect(dns-client) failed: No such file or directory

On 28.1.2012, at 17.34, Pascal Volk wrote:

When the Sieve plugin tries to send a vacation message or redirect a message to another address it fails.

dovecot: lmtp(6412, user@example.com): Error: lmtp client: DNS lookup of orange.example.com failed: connect(dns-client) failed: No such file or directory

Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/bc2eea348f55 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/32318f1588d4

The same problem exists in v2.0 also, but I didn't bother to fix it there. A workaround is to use IP instead of host in submission_host.