On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:05:06PM +0100, John P wrote:
> I am setting up Qmail, but I'm having some problems delivering to external
> sites, (550 errors etc) so I just want to check what I'm doing is possible!
>
> Our domain, ourdomain.com, is setup by our ISP + works fine for WWW. The MX
John.
We need to see unadulterated logs.
> record will point to 'office.ourdomain.com' which will be the address of our
> masquerading firewall, which port-forwards to our Qmail server, as well as
> provides net access for a group of 6 Windows PC's. The Qmail server works
> fine sending to and from users on the mail machine as well as SMTP/Pop3 from
> all 'internal' PC's, as well as providing DNS.
>
> However, I am getting something like '550 cannot route to sender
No. We don't want to hear "I am getting something like", we want to see
unadulterated logs.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]' errors when I try to e-mail external sites.
> I think this is because our IP is not yet setup and so our internal network
> is online through a temporary IP address that doesn't correspond to
> 'office.ourdomain.com' .. is this the problem? However, even when it is set
> up, the machine mail.office.ourdomain.com will not be resolvable from the
> internet - only office.ourdomain.com and below. Will this be a problem?
Can't tell. Since you're hiding the domain we cannot see what the DNS
says.
> When our IP address is permanent I propose to let internal users access the
> mailserver via it's internal hostname, and for external clients to send +
> receive mail via the external address of the masq box
> 'office.ourdomain.com'.
>
> To this end I have given the Qmail box the FQDN of
> 'mail.office.ourdomain.com' and addr. 10.0.0.6, with BIND set to not
> distribute these addresses, so does it matter what FQDN I choose?
>
> Finally, I want everything to come from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and so put
> ourdomain.com into defaulthost, however local mail is still from
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' have I done something wrong? Could this tie
> in with the 550 problem?
Can't tell. We have no log entries to look at.
> OK That's it, please tell me if I'm heading in the right direction - my
> previous *nix experience did not really delve into setting up servers :-)
Did your previous experience tell you that log files can be a mine of
information?
Regards.
