The question is whether or not you can make an external connection, from something other than Sendmail, to mail.toto.com
Is it possible that you have some sort of firewalling going on that's blocking outbound port 25 connectins? On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Sylvain ARNAUD wrote: > Hello, > > We are running sendmail 8.12.6 (under Linux RedHat > 7.2), we have ou own domaine, and the MX entry is well > configured and here is what's happening: > - local mail delivery is OK > - e-mail form external sites are received > - we can take our local mail from an external site > using POP3 > - but as soon as we try to send e-mail to an external > site, we have the message "Deferred: connection timed > out to mail.toto.com", and nothing else: no Relaying > denied, or DNS problem, or mail configuration > problem... > > > We can telnet our mail serveur on port 25, and if we > use "sendmail -v -t", we see the name resolution is > OK, but then, it cannot reach the distant server > (whereas the ping command is OK, and nslookup too). > > I tried to configure sendmail about 5 times, but > nothing changed. > > Here is my actual configuartion file: > ======================= > File /usr/local/sendmail-8.12.6/cf/cf/sendmail.mc > Used to build /etc/mail/sendmail.cf using the script > /usr/local/sendmail-8.12.6/cf/cf/Build > ======================= > > divert(-1) > include(`../m4/cf.m4')dnl > OSTYPE(`linux')dnl > DOMAIN(mydomain.com)dnl > > FEATURE(`dnsbl')dnl > > FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain')dnl > FEATURE(`virtusertable', `btree > /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl > FEATURE(`genericstable', `btree > /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl > GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domain')dnl > > FEATURE(`limited_masquerade')dnl > FEATURE(`nouucp', `reject')dnl > > define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/mail/aliases,/etc/mail/majordomo.aliases') > define(`confCF_VERSION', ` MyCompany 01/10/02')dnl > define(`confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING', `mimify')dnl > define(`confCOPY_ERRORS_TO', `postmaster')dnl > define(`confDEF_CHAR_SET', `ISO-8859-1')dnl > define(`confMIME_FORMAT_ERROR', `True')dnl > define(`confQUEUE_WARN', `24h') > > MAILER(local)dnl > MAILER(smtp)dnl > > > ================================== > File > /usr/local/sendmail-8.12.6/cf/domain/mydomain.fr.m4 > ================================== > > divert(-1) > # > # Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Sendmail, Inc. and its > suppliers. > # All rights reserved. > # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman. All rights > reserved. > # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 > # The Regents of the University of California. All > rights reserved. > # > # By using this file, you agree to the terms and > conditions set > # forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the > top level of > # the sendmail distribution. > # > # > > # > # The following is a generic domain file. You should > be able to > # use it anywhere. If you want to customize it, copy > it to a file > # named with your domain and make the edits; then, > copy the appropriate > # .mc files and change `DOMAIN(generic)' to reference > your updated domain > # files. > # > divert(0) > VERSIONID(`$Id: generic.m4,v 8.15 1999/04/04 00:51:09 > ca Exp $') > define(`confFORWARD_PATH', > `$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl > define(`confMAX_HEADERS_LENGTH', `32768')dnl > FEATURE(`redirect')dnl > FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl > ========================= > > If you have any idea, I will be glad... > > Many thanks, > Regards, > > Sylvain. > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! > Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
