1. This cannot be the case, since Time Warner is my ISP, and I can send the e-mail from this workstation using Kmail.
2. The whole point of my query here is to get sendmail to use the smtp- server.satx.rr.com as its transfer agent. 3. If you are talking about the recipient, then exactly where else should I send this, other than my own mail? On Dec 27, 6:41 am, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
