Well, since everybody exept VP (thank Bob !) was busy with HP 9000/300's
I had to figure out myself (nice learning experience).
To share with the rest, just in case someone else runs into this:
This RedHat 7.2 comes with the default
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc which you have to disable and than reinstall
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
- Horst.
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Horst wrote:
> Any pointer is appreciated, including additional processes and conf's
> required/restarted, as well as other 'trivial' and security issues
> (since I never did this) - I know, there is a rich documentation, but
> fully digesting that 130KB doc is something I don't look forward to...
>
> Thanks much .................... Horst.
>
> ################ problem summary: ################
>
> Redhat 7.2, fresh installation.
> sendmail user1 to user2 on local machine works.
> sendmail outbound to remote machine works
> replying(or from scratch) from remote fails (see clip from efn)
> (all real names are replaced so hostname reads like
> 'machine1.domean.com'
>
> After editing 'local-host-names' executing 'make' in /etc/mail/ looked OK
> (see *.db below)
>
> [root@machine1 mail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
> Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
> Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
> [root@machine1 mail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status
> sendmail (pid 11927) is running...
> [root@machine1 mail]#
>
> ~~~~~~ who I am: ~~~~~~~~~~~
> [root@machine1 conf]# hostname
> machine1.domean.com
> [root@machine1 conf]#
>
>
> #################### errors: #####################
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~ recieved at remote account and replied ~~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... but: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The original message was received at
> Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:45:43 -0800 (PST) from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [206.163.176.5]
>
> ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection refused by
> machine1.domean.com.
> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
> Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
>
> [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns; clavin.efn.org
> Arrival-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:45:43 -0800 (PST)
>
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Action: delayed
> Status: 4.4.1
> Remote-MTA: DNS; machine1.domean.com
> Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:57:10 -0800 (PST)
> Will-Retry-Until: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 17:45:43 -0800 (PST)
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ another error, but local: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> less /var/log/maillog
> ...
> Apr 3 09:45:26 localhost sendmail[11367]: NOQUEUE: machine1.domean.com
> [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> ...
>
> ############### directories, files, file content: ####################
>
> [root@machine1 mail]# pwd
> /etc/mail
>
> [root@machine1 mail]# ls -ltr
> total 68
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 2001 virtusertable
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Mar 2 2001 trusted-users
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2220 Mar 2 2001 sendmail.mc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 611 Mar 2 2001 Makefile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 2001 mailertable
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5573 Mar 2 2001 helpfile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 2001 domaintable
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155 Apr 2 15:02 local-host-names
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 528 Apr 2 15:54 access
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 2 16:06 virtusertable.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 2 16:06 mailertable.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 2 16:06 domaintable.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 2 16:06 access.db
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 3 09:52 MISC
> [root@machine1 mail]#
>
> [root@machine1 mail]# ls -l /etc/send*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46245 Mar 2 2001 /etc/sendmail.cf
>
>
> [root@machine1 mail]# grep '/etc/mail/' ../sendmail.cf
> Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names
> FR-o /etc/mail/relay-domains
> Kmailertable hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable
> Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable
> Kaccess hash /etc/mail/access
> #O ErrorHeader=/etc/mail/error-header
> O HelpFile=/etc/mail/helpfile
> O UserDatabaseSpec=/etc/mail/userdb.db
> #O ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/mail/service.switch
> #O DefaultAuthInfo=/etc/mail/default-auth-info
> Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users
> [root@machine1 mail]#
>
>
> [root@machine1 mail]# cat local-host-names
> # local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.
> machine1.domean.com
>
>
> [root@machine1 mail]# cat access
> # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.2/README.cf file for a
> description
> # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
> # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.2/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
> # package.
> #
> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
> localhost.localdomain RELAY
> localhost RELAY
> 127.0.0.1 RELAY
>
> # tried a few things, but now commented out.
>
> [root@machine1 mail]#
>
