You are doiomed. No, seriously, spamhaus has blocked your whole Time Warner IP Block from sending email, and evidently your ISP uses spamhaus's blacklist to reject IP's trying to send mail (in an effort to reduce spam).
see here: http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL238298 I think your best bet is to pick someplace else to send the mail - I have a tendency to send any alert-type emails like this straight to my gmail account, and it seems to work great. So try that and see if you are successful. If you are, it is your ISP and there is nothing you can do to fix this. On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:58 AM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I put a FQDN in /etc/hosts, which got rid of the FQDN errors, but it > didn't help the overall situation. If I try: > > echo This is a test ^d | mail -v -a > FROM:[email protected]<from%[email protected]> > [email protected] > > I get: > [email protected]... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... > 220 RAID-Server ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5; Sat, 27 Dec > 2008 02:48:46 -0600; (No UCE/UBE) logging access from: localhost(OK)- > sm...@localhost [127.0.0.1] > >>> EHLO RAID-Server.nowhere.com > 250-RAID-Server Hello sm...@localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you > 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES > 250-PIPELINING > 250-EXPN > 250-VERB > 250-8BITMIME > 250-SIZE > 250-DSN > 250-ETRN > 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 > 250-DELIVERBY > 250 HELP > >>> VERB > 250 2.0.0 Verbose mode > >>> MAIL From:<[email protected]> SIZE=68 AUTH= > [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 > >>> . > 050 <[email protected]>... Connecting to cdptpa- > smtpin01.mail.rr.com. via esmtp... > 050 554 5.7.1 - ERROR: Mail refused - <70.114.21.59> - See > http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=70.114.21.59 > 050 >>> QUIT > 050 <[email protected]>... Connecting to cdptpa- > smtpin02.mail.rr.com. via esmtp... > 050 <[email protected]>... Closing connection to cdptpa- > smtpin01.mail.rr.com. > 050 554 5.7.1 - ERROR: Mail refused - <70.114.21.59> - See > http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=70.114.21.59 > 050 >>> QUIT > 050 <[email protected]>... Connecting to raid- > server.nowhere.com. via esmtp... > 050 <[email protected]>... Deferred: Connection refused by > raid-server.nowhere.com. > 250 2.0.0 mBR8mkiQ009058 Message accepted for delivery > [email protected]... Sent (mBR8mkiQ009058 Message accepted for > delivery) > Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] > >>> QUIT > 221 2.0.0 RAID-Server closing connection > > > On Dec 26, 3:59 pm, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, the FQDN errors can be fixed by making up an extension for your > > hostname (i.e. RAID-Server.not.important will work). As for actually > using > > sendmail, I have a debian system, and it "Just works". I type "mail > > [email protected]" and it asks for the subject and body, and it sends, > > arriving in my inbox faster than I can switch windows and click refresh. > > > > So, sorry, but my only experience with sendmail is as described, I've > never > > delved any deeper. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Oh, and no, I don't have a machine with an smtp server on the LAN. > > > > > On Dec 26, 6:40 am, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think KMail talks to the SMTP server; without sendmail. Unless you > > > have > > > > the option to use sendmail instead... > > > > Do you know for a fact that the emails are not leaving the server? > Maybe > > > the > > > > ISP is dropping them (i.e. if your 'from' address is a verified host > like > > > > yahoo, they may not accept the email from non-yahoo ip's.) Do you > have a > > > > machine on the local network with an smtp server so you could try > sending > > > > there? > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:54 AM, lrhorer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Merry Christmas, everyone. > > > > > > > I have mdadm set up managing an array, and I want to have it send > e- > > > > > mail to my ISPs SMTP server when an event occurs. I know the basic > > > > > method for creating an e-mail using --follow, but I can't get the > e- > > > > > mails to actually leave the server. I think I have sendmail set up > > > > > properly - sendmail is nothing if not arcane and confusing - but > the e- > > > > > mails never go anywhere. I can fire up Kmail, and it is able to > send > > > > > mail to the SMTP server. If I have sendmail set up (and not exim), > > > > > doesn't Kmail use sendmail as its mail agent? If so then sendmail > is > > > > > working. If not, then maybe I need to take a different tack. In > the > > > > > mean time, how can I specify to which server sendmail is supposeed > to > > > > > send the message? I don't see a syntax for that or a way to set it > up > > > > > in sendmail's configuration. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Daniel > > > > -- > > > > Daniel > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
