Re: Speaking of sendmail...
In a message dated: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:46:36 EDT Derek Martin said: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:46:18PM -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote: Ah - i see your problem. your running sendmail. :-) gotta love those cryptic, gotta-upgrade-every-two-days, monolithic MTAs :-) [...snip...] As for it being monolithic, huh? So what? The bottom line is it works. Hmmm, yeah, monolithic bad. Must get rid of Linux Kernel and switch to modular NT kernel. Modular = good. -- Seeya, Paul I always explain our company via interpretive dance. I meet lots of interesting people that way. Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000 If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Speaking of sendmail...
I just switched over to my new DSL account (thank you, MV Communications!), and now my incoming e-mail doesn't work. I switched my DNS, and modified all my /var/named/* stuff to look right -- my mx records, etc., but now I'm told: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: relaying denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]: user unknown [Not a cut-n-paste, as, for unrelated reasons, my X is down.] Anyway, what's up with this? I'm *not* relaying -- it goes straight to my one-and-only host on the Internet, flyingtoasters.net. And I'd *best* not be unknown -- I'm in the /etc/passwd file, at any rate. Something go foobar? I'm not even sure where to start looking... Thanks, -Ken ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Speaking of sendmail...
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: relaying denied Check /etc/mail/access, and make sure you've done a make in /etc/mail to bring the hashed databases up to date. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: user unknown Check your /etc/sendmail.cw or /etc/mail/sendmail.cw or /etc/mail/local-host-names file, and make sure all your system's names are listed, including localhost. Also, make sure both your unqualified host name and your fully qualified domain name resolve properly on your system. I'm not even sure where to start looking... Check your system mail log (varies, but usually something like /var/log/maillog). -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Speaking of sendmail...
Ah - i see your problem. your running sendmail. :-) gotta love those cryptic, gotta-upgrade-every-two-days, monolithic MTAs :-) ~kurth On Sun, 27 May 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote: I just switched over to my new DSL account (thank you, MV Communications!), and now my incoming e-mail doesn't work. I switched my DNS, and modified all my /var/named/* stuff to look right -- my mx records, etc., but now I'm told: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: relaying denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]: user unknown [Not a cut-n-paste, as, for unrelated reasons, my X is down.] Anyway, what's up with this? I'm *not* relaying -- it goes straight to my one-and-only host on the Internet, flyingtoasters.net. And I'd *best* not be unknown -- I'm in the /etc/passwd file, at any rate. Something go foobar? I'm not even sure where to start looking... Thanks, -Ken ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Speaking of sendmail...
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:46:18PM -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote: Ah - i see your problem. your running sendmail. :-) gotta love those cryptic, gotta-upgrade-every-two-days, monolithic MTAs :-) I really have to ask, no flames intended or desired, what makes you say this? Sendmail has not had a major security bug in over 2 years, and even then it was in vendor-specific releases (which invariably are outdated, and most of which are from SCO). The m4 macro configuration makes it anything but cryptic; though it is still not simple, but sendmail is not a simple program. It handles the transport of mail between a wide variety of transport agents, including DECNET, UUCP, SMTP, and others. Upgrade every two days? I've been running 8.9.3 for two YEARS. I don't understand this comment. As for it being monolithic, huh? So what? The bottom line is it works. So, what's the problem? What's so bad about Sendmail? -- --- Derek Martin | Unix/Linux geek [EMAIL PROTECTED]| GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
