> Robert: > > Is foo a static IP or a DHCP from Charter? As you could probably deduce, What I mean here is; is foo's connection to the Internet DHCP? i.e. when mail.charter.net does the reverse lookup, is the IP returned a DHCP address.
> > The last entry in maillog would indicate the mail server at chater did > recieve the message. I think the question here is; What did charter do > with the email? Good luck gettin that answered. > > I've seen a lot of ISPs be very aggressive as to assume email from a DHCP > address is SPAM, and subsequently not deliver it. > > Cheers; > > Eric Wilson > >> >> How does one send mail with sendmail? >> >> I am trying to get this command to work on a machine on a LAN behind a >> NAT/FW: >> >> $ echo hello | mail -v -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> From what I've been reading 'mail' does not actually connect to >> mail.charter.net to deliver my message, despite that dig reports >> mail.charter.net as the MX for charter.net: >> >> $ dig charter.net mx | grep -A 1 ';; ANS' >> ;; ANSWER SECTION: >> charter.net. 277 IN MX 10 mail.charter.net. >> >> Instead, mail sends the message to the local sendmail daemon which then >> should send it off to mail.charter.net. >> >> Whenever I try the above mail command, mail gives me verbose output >> like so: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... >> 220 foo ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:18:21 -0600 >> >>> EHLO foo.foo >> 250-foo Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you >> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES >> 250-PIPELINING >> 250-8BITMIME >> 250-SIZE >> 250-DSN >> 250-ETRN >> 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 >> 250-DELIVERBY >> 250 HELP >> >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 250 2.1.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok >> >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> DATA >> 250 2.1.5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok >> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >> >>> . >> 250 2.0.0 iB27ILX6023922 Message accepted for delivery >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent (iB27ILX6023922 Message accepted for >> delivery) >> Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] >> >>> QUIT >> 221 2.0.0 foo closing connection >> >> In addition, the following records are appended to the /var/log/maillog >> file: >> >> Dec 2 01:18:21 foo sendmail[23921]: iB27ILUh023921: from=rwcitek, >> size=45, class=0, nrcpts=1, >> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Dec 2 01:18:21 foo sendmail[23922]: iB27ILX6023922: >> from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=316, class=0, nrcpts=1, >> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, >> relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] >> Dec 2 01:18:21 foo sendmail[23921]: iB27ILUh023921: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=rwcitek (500/500), delay=00:00:00, >> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30045, relay=[127.0.0.1] >> [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (iB27ILX6023922 Message accepted for >> delivery) >> Dec 2 01:18:21 foo sendmail[23924]: iB27ILX6023922: >> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, >> mailer=relay, pri=30316, relay=mail.charter.net. [209.225.8.224], >> dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (ok: Message 619964877 accepted) >> >> It would seem as though the message was sent OK, but I never receive >> anything in my charter.net mailbox. "foo" is the hostname of the >> machine where I'm typing the mail command. >> >> Anyone have any pointers in the right direction? >> >> Regards, >> - Robert >> http://www.cwelug.org/downloads >> Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for >> Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CWE-LUG mailing list >> http://www.cwelug.org/ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > > > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
