SendMail Help!
Hi, My sendmail: # /usr/sbin/sendmail -d0.1 -bt /dev/null Version 8.13.4 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) (short domain name) $w = mailsrv (canonical domain name) $j = mailsrv.sub.dom.com (subdomain name) $m = sub.dom.com (node name) $k = mailsrv.sub.dom.com ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter ruleset address What do I've to change so that: -My Domain Name (must be sub.dom.com)? -Bind sendmail to an IP? -Setup my sendmail to deliver the mails to another mail server(dom.com)? Thanks... Efren Bravo. __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SendMail Help!
What do I've to change so that: -My Domain Name (must be sub.dom.com)? Don't quite understand what you are getting at here. -Bind sendmail to an IP? Here is a pretty good document I found that describes how to bind only to loopback address, but I'm sure you could hack it to force it to listen to a different address instead. It also explains rebuilding your cf file from mc. http://www.chinalinuxpub.com/doc/www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/send mail.htm -Setup my sendmail to deliver the mails to another mail server(dom.com)? Check out the mailertable.sample file. I believe that it is there where you will alias the subdomain to another location. Create a new mailertable file, then whilst in your mail directory (usually /etc/mail), just type make, or: # makemap hash mailertable mailertable HTH, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail help needed
Hello, Thanks for the help. The thing is that our main mailserver is not able to work with reports from only one address. It has a db with some names that match [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then send the reports to the respective persons/mailing lists. So the basics of the question is: Is it possible to get every mail (including local mail) redirected to one domain with MX lookup? I've been reading about LUSER_RELAY, LOCAL_RELAY, stickyhost, but I don't know if this will solve the problem. On 7/28/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts and they are using mailx -s subj user which normally would try to deliver it to a local account in the machine. So the question is: Can I, in any way, define that every user passed on the mailx in every script gets resolved to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to a local system account? We have hundreds of names in the scripts, so aliasing doesn't work for me. If you don't _ever_ want things to be delivered locally, you can create what sendmail calls a null client. That will send all mail to the address you specify. You can get more details from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README -Glenn My current hack is defining DR and DS in the sendmail.cf to a static hostname but that takes redundancy to our mail system since if the main mailserver is down the backup mail server (higher MX) won't take any effect. Any help apreciated Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail help needed
Hello Glenn, The odds of the reporting system are not of my fully knowledge, I just know how and what mails go from where to who. Imagine that a script on a reporting machine does this: # mailx -s ERROR_FOUND_IN_PROC_SYNC syncproj It will try to deliver the mail locally, as suposed to. If I define a central hub or a Smart host it will deliver the mail I exampled to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works fine. The problem is that it won't lookup the mailhub MX record, It will send it directly to mailhub:25. Now imagine that mailhub is down? There is a backup server listed as an MX record for the mailhub domain with a higher pref that would take the work while mailhub prefered MX is down. I've been reading a little more and I think there is some kind of feature/option that force a MX lookup on the mailhub host. Thank you On 7/29/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:30 AM 7/29/2005, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help. The thing is that our main mailserver is not able to work with reports from only one address. It has a db with some names that match [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then send the reports to the respective persons/mailing lists. So the basics of the question is: Is it possible to get every mail (including local mail) redirected to one domain with MX lookup? I've been reading about LUSER_RELAY, LOCAL_RELAY, stickyhost, but I don't know if this will solve the problem. ok, lets see if I understand this correctly... You have an existing mail server that handles mail for you local network. Some of the mail sent to that server is compared to a database which has entries that look like [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a match is found, the message is redistributed to some list of email addresses. So far so good? hope so... The addresses that are looked at for a match, are they the from address or the to address? For example, I send an email to you mail server using the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since I sent the email, it looks like it came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of those two addresses are compared to a database to decide what to do with the message. From your description, it sounds like the To: address is the one being looked at by the mail server. Local mail is normally considered to be mail between two addresses which are on the same machine. The from and to addresses for the local mail can have only account names, or, one or both could have a domain associated with it. Potentially, mail between the following pairs of addresses could all be local: From: To: foo bar [EMAIL PROTECTED]bar foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] From your description above, it sounds like you're looking at mail that is always delivered to the same address on the mail server, and then you're using the address the mail was from to decide what to do with it. Is that correct? From the description below (from the original email) it sounds like the scripts in question are running on machines that are not the mail server, and they're only specifying the username to deliver to, and not adding any domain name or hostname to the recipient. Depending on what else is happening on the machines that have the scripts that generate the mail, it sounds like building a null client is probably the simplest thing to do. Other options are using some of the masquerading features, or by using LOCAL_RELAY to force unqualified names to be send to a central server which will figure out what to do with them. Hope some of that helps...Let me know if I can clarify anything, I'll be around for at least another few hours... -Glenn On 7/28/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts and they are using mailx -s subj user which normally would try to deliver it to a local account in the machine. So the question is: Can I, in any way, define that every user passed on the mailx in every script gets resolved to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to a local system account? We have hundreds of names in the scripts, so aliasing doesn't work for me. If you don't _ever_ want things to be delivered locally, you can create what sendmail calls a null client. That will send all mail to the address you specify. You can get more details from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README -Glenn My current hack is defining DR and DS in the sendmail.cf to a static hostname but that takes redundancy to our mail system since if the main mailserver is down the backup mail server (higher MX) won't take any effect. Any help apreciated Cheers ___
Re: Sendmail help needed
At 01:48 AM 7/29/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello Glenn, The odds of the reporting system are not of my fully knowledge, I just know how and what mails go from where to who. Imagine that a script on a reporting machine does this: # mailx -s ERROR_FOUND_IN_PROC_SYNC syncproj It will try to deliver the mail locally, as suposed to. If I define a central hub or a Smart host it will deliver the mail I exampled to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works fine. The problem is that it won't lookup the mailhub MX record, It will send it directly to mailhub:25. Now imagine that mailhub is down? There is a backup server listed as an MX record for the mailhub domain with a higher pref that would take the work while mailhub prefered MX is down. If that's all you're worried about, you don't have to worry. If you specify a smart host and it's not available, the mail will get queued locally until it is available. The default settings will hold it in the queue for 5 days. If your smart host is down for that long, you probably have other things to worry about. -Glenn I've been reading a little more and I think there is some kind of feature/option that force a MX lookup on the mailhub host. Thank you On 7/29/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:30 AM 7/29/2005, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help. The thing is that our main mailserver is not able to work with reports from only one address. It has a db with some names that match [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then send the reports to the respective persons/mailing lists. So the basics of the question is: Is it possible to get every mail (including local mail) redirected to one domain with MX lookup? I've been reading about LUSER_RELAY, LOCAL_RELAY, stickyhost, but I don't know if this will solve the problem. ok, lets see if I understand this correctly... You have an existing mail server that handles mail for you local network. Some of the mail sent to that server is compared to a database which has entries that look like [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a match is found, the message is redistributed to some list of email addresses. So far so good? hope so... The addresses that are looked at for a match, are they the from address or the to address? For example, I send an email to you mail server using the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since I sent the email, it looks like it came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of those two addresses are compared to a database to decide what to do with the message. From your description, it sounds like the To: address is the one being looked at by the mail server. Local mail is normally considered to be mail between two addresses which are on the same machine. The from and to addresses for the local mail can have only account names, or, one or both could have a domain associated with it. Potentially, mail between the following pairs of addresses could all be local: From: To: foo bar [EMAIL PROTECTED]bar foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] From your description above, it sounds like you're looking at mail that is always delivered to the same address on the mail server, and then you're using the address the mail was from to decide what to do with it. Is that correct? From the description below (from the original email) it sounds like the scripts in question are running on machines that are not the mail server, and they're only specifying the username to deliver to, and not adding any domain name or hostname to the recipient. Depending on what else is happening on the machines that have the scripts that generate the mail, it sounds like building a null client is probably the simplest thing to do. Other options are using some of the masquerading features, or by using LOCAL_RELAY to force unqualified names to be send to a central server which will figure out what to do with them. Hope some of that helps...Let me know if I can clarify anything, I'll be around for at least another few hours... -Glenn On 7/28/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts and they are using mailx -s subj user which normally would try to deliver it to a local account in the machine. So the question is: Can I, in any way, define that every user passed on the mailx in every script gets resolved to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to a local system account? We have hundreds of names in the scripts, so aliasing doesn't work for me. If you don't _ever_ want things to be delivered locally, you can create what sendmail calls a null client. That will send all mail to the address you specify. You can get more details
Re: Sendmail help needed
Hello Glenn, Thanks for your time. Well it is actually an issue. The reports are very important for our departments. They do not have access to see if the procedures went OK and as consequence they can't continue to work. If I can't get this to work with redundancy I will have to make some kind of script to change the A record for the mailhub, in our nameserver, when it's down so the backup mailserver can get with it's work. Any help on this issue is apreciated. On 7/29/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:48 AM 7/29/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello Glenn, The odds of the reporting system are not of my fully knowledge, I just know how and what mails go from where to who. Imagine that a script on a reporting machine does this: # mailx -s ERROR_FOUND_IN_PROC_SYNC syncproj It will try to deliver the mail locally, as suposed to. If I define a central hub or a Smart host it will deliver the mail I exampled to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works fine. The problem is that it won't lookup the mailhub MX record, It will send it directly to mailhub:25. Now imagine that mailhub is down? There is a backup server listed as an MX record for the mailhub domain with a higher pref that would take the work while mailhub prefered MX is down. If that's all you're worried about, you don't have to worry. If you specify a smart host and it's not available, the mail will get queued locally until it is available. The default settings will hold it in the queue for 5 days. If your smart host is down for that long, you probably have other things to worry about. -Glenn I've been reading a little more and I think there is some kind of feature/option that force a MX lookup on the mailhub host. Thank you On 7/29/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:30 AM 7/29/2005, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help. The thing is that our main mailserver is not able to work with reports from only one address. It has a db with some names that match [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then send the reports to the respective persons/mailing lists. So the basics of the question is: Is it possible to get every mail (including local mail) redirected to one domain with MX lookup? I've been reading about LUSER_RELAY, LOCAL_RELAY, stickyhost, but I don't know if this will solve the problem. ok, lets see if I understand this correctly... You have an existing mail server that handles mail for you local network. Some of the mail sent to that server is compared to a database which has entries that look like [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a match is found, the message is redistributed to some list of email addresses. So far so good? hope so... The addresses that are looked at for a match, are they the from address or the to address? For example, I send an email to you mail server using the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since I sent the email, it looks like it came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of those two addresses are compared to a database to decide what to do with the message. From your description, it sounds like the To: address is the one being looked at by the mail server. Local mail is normally considered to be mail between two addresses which are on the same machine. The from and to addresses for the local mail can have only account names, or, one or both could have a domain associated with it. Potentially, mail between the following pairs of addresses could all be local: From: To: foo bar [EMAIL PROTECTED]bar foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] From your description above, it sounds like you're looking at mail that is always delivered to the same address on the mail server, and then you're using the address the mail was from to decide what to do with it. Is that correct? From the description below (from the original email) it sounds like the scripts in question are running on machines that are not the mail server, and they're only specifying the username to deliver to, and not adding any domain name or hostname to the recipient. Depending on what else is happening on the machines that have the scripts that generate the mail, it sounds like building a null client is probably the simplest thing to do. Other options are using some of the masquerading features, or by using LOCAL_RELAY to force unqualified names to be send to a central server which will figure out what to do with them. Hope some of that helps...Let me know if I can clarify anything, I'll be around for at least another few hours... -Glenn On 7/28/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails
Sendmail help needed
Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts and they are using mailx -s subj user which normally would try to deliver it to a local account in the machine. So the question is: Can I, in any way, define that every user passed on the mailx in every script gets resolved to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to a local system account? We have hundreds of names in the scripts, so aliasing doesn't work for me. My current hack is defining DR and DS in the sendmail.cf to a static hostname but that takes redundancy to our mail system since if the main mailserver is down the backup mail server (higher MX) won't take any effect. Any help apreciated Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail help needed
At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts and they are using mailx -s subj user which normally would try to deliver it to a local account in the machine. So the question is: Can I, in any way, define that every user passed on the mailx in every script gets resolved to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to a local system account? We have hundreds of names in the scripts, so aliasing doesn't work for me. If you don't _ever_ want things to be delivered locally, you can create what sendmail calls a null client. That will send all mail to the address you specify. You can get more details from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README -Glenn My current hack is defining DR and DS in the sendmail.cf to a static hostname but that takes redundancy to our mail system since if the main mailserver is down the backup mail server (higher MX) won't take any effect. Any help apreciated Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail help needed!!!
Hussain Umair wrote: hi all, im tryin to get my bsd box to run as an email server on my local lan, squid is already running perfectly on that but my lan clients cannot retrieve their mails through pop or smtp...ive tried everything but im getting nowhere my bsd box has an ip 192.168.1.125 and the other one is a static given to me by my service provider ...now ive installed sendmail and qpopper but nothing seems to be working for me...and my lan users cannot recieve their mails from yahoo or hotmail on their outlook express...so kindly if any one has ne ideas to help me out here id b greatfull ...config's might help alot...thanks in advance...chao First, take a deep breath. Then pour yourself a strong cup of coffee (or whatever helps you stay lucid) and head over to http://www.sendmail.org and do some serious reading. Start with the FAQ and the Email Explained document so you understand the fundamentals and how the different parts are supposed to work. Do the same for Qpopper. Expect to invest considerable effort (read: time) into learning this. Start by articulating precisely what you expect from your mail server then come back here and ask a *specific* question that those with more experience might be motivated to answer. Be prepared to provide details on steps you've taken to install and configure the appropriate components as well as specific error messages, contents of log files, etc. that seem pertinent to troubleshooting your problem (as *you* perceive it; hence the suggestion on articulating expectations above). Remember: the quality of what you'll get back is (usually) directly proportional to what you put in... EB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail help needed!!!
hi all, im tryin to get my bsd box to run as an email server on my local lan, squid is already running perfectly on that but my lan clients cannot retrieve their mails through pop or smtp...ive tried everything but im getting nowhere my bsd box has an ip 192.168.1.125 and the other one is a static given to me by my service provider ...now ive installed sendmail and qpopper but nothing seems to be working for me...and my lan users cannot recieve their mails from yahoo or hotmail on their outlook express...so kindly if any one has ne ideas to help me out here id b greatfull ...config's might help alot...thanks in advance...chao _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail help needed!!!
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 03:43:18 +0500, Hussain Umair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, im tryin to get my bsd box to run as an email server on my local lan, squid is already running perfectly on that but my lan clients cannot retrieve their mails through pop or smtp As far as I know squid is a proxy server and has nothing to do with SMTP, POP etc. ...ive tried everything but im getting nowhere my bsd box has an ip 192.168.1.125 and the other one is a static given to me by my service provider ...now ive installed sendmail and qpopper but nothing seems to be working for me...and my lan users cannot recieve their mails from yahoo or hotmail on their outlook express...so If you are trying to allow users to access their YAHOO! or Hotmail account through your sendmail setup, then its quite unfortunate that it CANT be done. However if your user does have a pay account from YAHOO! then he can get things working with POP3. You need to fetch the mail from the remote YAHOO! mailbox to your local mail server. For that use something like fetchmail (cd /usr/ports, make search key=fetchmail | more). Then you can further distribute the mail using Qpopper. Also you need to run a SMTP relay to let the user mail out. But that is definitely not a good idea because almost all mail servers check the reverse DNS before accepting mails and thus most likely the mails would be rejected or delivered as spam to the target accounts. For Outlook to work normally you coould set up a NAT. Refer to the handbook for the nitty gritty details. kindly if any one has ne ideas to help me out here id b greatfull config's might help alot...thanks in advance...chao You have the ideas now. Implementation is yours =) Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed
On Sunday 11 April 2004 07:02, Rob wrote: That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ all: access.db mailertable.db virtusertable.db catchall.db aliases.db Your Makefile does not contain an install target. From the date in the header I would guess this corresponds to around FreeBSD release 4.2. It would seem yu don't need: # make install but: # make should be sufficient; or if you wish to be specific/pedantic: # make all Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed
On Sunday 11 April 2004 10:40, Rob wrote: It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has found the answer to the problem. I think it probably has done something. But traditional BSD utilities don't flash lights or make a song and dance unless something is wrong. See what files in the directory now have a recent time and date. Malcolm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does it tell you when you just do make? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:10:11PM -0400, Rob wrote: Yeah, I believe it's 4.4 and I've been on this server for years. They are supposed to take care of the upgrades but they never do. I would do it myself but if anything goes wrong they charge to fix it and so I've pretty much left it alone up until now. I'll probably end up switching providers in a few weeks so I may have a shot at the upgrades next weekend. In which case you're runnning a system with an old and vulnerable version of sendmail. Recommend you update as a matter of priority. In order to generate the sendmail.cf that you need, the command to use is: # cd /etc/mail # m4 -D_CF_DIR=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 foo.mc foo.cf assuming that you have a load of sendmail related .m4 files under /usr/share/sendmail/cf -- you may have to substitute /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf instead. Then, once you're happy that it's generated a reasonable sendmail configuration file, copy foo.cf to sendmail.cf and restart sendmail. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed
Actually, when I do a make or make all, it appears as if nothing was done and when I check in the /etc/mail dir, none of the dates or times have changed. It may have done something but I can't see what it is. Rob. See what files in the directory now have a recent time and date. Malcolm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does it tell you when you just do make? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed
When I try this, I get the error: m4: ../m4/cfhead.m4: No such file or directory So I looked for m4 and it appears to be in /usr/bin/ so I run: %/usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 freebsd.mc foo.cf and get the same error. Is it telling me that m4 is not there or cfhead.m4 is missing. cfhead is located here: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cfhead.m4 -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 4:09 AM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed In order to generate the sendmail.cf that you need, the command to use is: # cd /etc/mail # m4 -D_CF_DIR=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 foo.mc foo.cf assuming that you have a load of sendmail related .m4 files under /usr/share/sendmail/cf -- you may have to substitute /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf instead. Then, once you're happy that it's generated a reasonable sendmail configuration file, copy foo.cf to sendmail.cf and restart sendmail. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:01:51AM -0400, Rob wrote: When I try this, I get the error: m4: ../m4/cfhead.m4: No such file or directory So I looked for m4 and it appears to be in /usr/bin/ so I run: %/usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 freebsd.mc foo.cf and get the same error. Is it telling me that m4 is not there or cfhead.m4 is missing. cfhead is located here: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cfhead.m4 It appears that the sendmail version you're trying to use is too old for the required functionality using _CF_DIR to be present in the .m4 files. However, all is not lost. You should be able to do: # cp foo.mc /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/ # cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/ # m4 ../m4/cf.m4 foo.mc foo.cf # cp foo.cf /etc/mail But like I said, upgrade as soon as you can. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed
Ahhh... brilliant.. worked like a charm. Thanks Matthew and everyone else who helped. Much appreciated. I will also get sendmail upgraded as soon as I can. Thanks again. Rob. It appears that the sendmail version you're trying to use is too old for the required functionality using _CF_DIR to be present in the .m4 files. However, all is not lost. You should be able to do: # cp foo.mc /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/ # cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/ # m4 ../m4/cf.m4 foo.mc foo.cf # cp foo.cf /etc/mail But like I said, upgrade as soon as you can. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to stop some of the spam received by the server. I have looked over the sendmail.org site and now I think I'm even dumber that I was before. I have tried all kinds of iterations of: /m4 /etc/mail/freebsd.mc sendmail.cf and have had no luck in generating a working sendmail.cf file. My current sendmail.cf file is 45k ish and every time I attempt generating a new one it never gets above .5k. I am using the freebsd.mc file they told me I needed to use. Can someone point me in the right direction so I can get this working. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Can someone point me in the right direction so I can get this working. Just use the Makefile in /etc/mail (or switch to postfix, cough). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:42 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed Can someone point me in the right direction so I can get this working. Just use the Makefile in /etc/mail (or switch to postfix, cough). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 04:07 PM 4/10/2004, you wrote: Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. Postfix is very easy to install and configure. Sendmail is not for the faint of heart. However, once you learn how to use m4 to make sendmail.cf it really becomes trivial. This seems to be the most difficulty people end up having. Perhaps a post to the sendmail newsgroup (or google) could help. I personally dont use ports or packages - as I compile everything from scratch...so I wont be the best person to ask. But seriously, it is not all that difficult. If you dont have time, postfix is an excellent alternate MTA. -Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support
on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to
stop some of the spam received by the server.
The FreeBSD /etc/mail/Makefile makes this pretty easy.
Edit the /etc/mail/hostname.mc file. If you don't have one, I think the
first make will create it. Add this type of line for the DNSBLs you
want to use (warning: one long line):
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org', `554 Mail from ${client_addr} rejected, site
listed on http://www.dsbl.org;')
Important note: please don't use any DNSBL without at least reading
their policies. Misunderstanding are way too easy to make.
Then do a 'make all install restart' and it's done.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed
Thanks for the help,
I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when
I try to make I get this error:
make: don't know how to make install. Stop
I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts.
:-)
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From: Warren Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:17 PM
To: Rob
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Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote:
I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no
support
on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists
to
stop some of the spam received by the server.
The FreeBSD /etc/mail/Makefile makes this pretty easy.
Edit the /etc/mail/hostname.mc file. If you don't have one, I think the
first make will create it. Add this type of line for the DNSBLs you
want to use (warning: one long line):
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org', `554 Mail from ${client_addr}
rejected, site listed on http://www.dsbl.org;')
Important note: please don't use any DNSBL without at least reading
their policies. Misunderstanding are way too easy to make.
Then do a 'make all install restart' and it's done.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. :-) That would mean the Makefile is gone or overwritten, or you're not in /etc/mail when you try it. Here's the version comment from mine: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/Makefile,v 1.9.2.25 2003/07/12 23:23:46 gshapiro Exp $ -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ all: access.db mailertable.db virtusertable.db catchall.db aliases.db access.db: access /usr/sbin/makemap hash access access virtusertable.db: virtusertable /usr/sbin/makemap hash virtusertable virtusertable catchall.db: catchall /usr/sbin/makemap hash catchall catchall mailertable.db: mailertable /usr/sbin/makemap hash mailertable mailertable aliases.db: aliases newaliases mailertable: @echo Generating empty mailertable sed -e 's/^/#/' mailertable.sample mailertable access: @echo Generating empty access sed -e 's/^/#/' access.sample access virtusertable: @echo Generating empty virtusertable sed -e 's/^/#/' virtusertable.sample virtusertable catchall: @echo Generating empty catchall sed -e 's/^/#/' catchall.sample catchall clean: rm -f access.db virtusertable.db mailertable.db catchall.db -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:28 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. :-) That would mean the Makefile is gone or overwritten, or you're not in /etc/mail when you try it. Here's the version comment from mine: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/Makefile,v 1.9.2.25 2003/07/12 23:23:46 gshapiro Exp $ -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. Are you attempting to run this from /etc/mail? Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. Are you attempting to run this from /etc/mail? Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ That's really old. And it's telling you the truth--it doesn't have an install target. This suggests that it's time to cvsup to 4.9, or at least something later than what you have. What release is it, maybe 4.4 or so? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop Are you attempting to run this from /etc/mail? Cheers, Viktor Yes, I just have never seen that error message before unless I was attempting to run make outside of /etc/mail. What does it tell you when you just do make? Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has found the answer to the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:36 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed Yes, I just have never seen that error message before unless I was attempting to run make outside of /etc/mail. What does it tell you when you just do make? Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yeah, I believe it's 4.4 and I've been on this server for years. They are supposed to take care of the upgrades but they never do. I would do it myself but if anything goes wrong they charge to fix it and so I've pretty much left it alone up until now. I'll probably end up switching providers in a few weeks so I may have a shot at the upgrades next weekend. -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:23 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ That's really old. And it's telling you the truth--it doesn't have an install target. This suggests that it's time to cvsup to 4.9, or at least something later than what you have. What release is it, maybe 4.4 or so? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi all. I am having a really hard time getting sendmail to work for me. I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp account that requires smtp authentication. For now, I'd simply like to be able to send mail from this local machine. I think the problem I am having is that the from: field in emails still has my local user name, rather than the one required by my isp. Here is the sendmail section of /etc/rc.conf: ### Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) options ## ## mta_start_script=/etc/rc.sendmail # Script to start your chosen MTA, called by /etc/rc. # Settings for /etc/rc.sendmail: sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd # Flags to sendmail (as a server) sendmail_submit_enable=YES# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost # Flags for localhost-only MTA sendmail_outbound_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_outbound_flags=-L sm-queue -q1m # Flags to sendmail (outbound only) sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). # sendmail _msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m sendmail_msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q1m I don't really understand this at all. I changed the -q1m parts because I don't want sendmail to wait to send stuff... but I'm not sure if I should have. What does sendmail_msp_que do? Do I need it? Here is the configuration I am using. I have added 'authinfo' to the hashes that the makefile looks after. I hope someone can help, I'm stuck. Thanks, Adam VERSIONID(`kayak.mc')dnl OSTYPE(freebsd5)dnl undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/mail/aliases')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com')dnl define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE',`True')dnl define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS',`e')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash -o /etc/mail/authinfo')dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN',`')dnl define(`confTO_INITIAL',`10s')dnl define(`confTO_CONNECT',`10s')dnl define(`confTO_ICONNECT',`10s')dnl define(`confCW_FILE',`/etc/mail/local-host-names')dnl FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl FEATURE(`nocanonify')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericsdomain')dnl FEATURE(`access_db')dnl FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl MAILER(`local')dnl MAILER(`smtp')dnl # # aliases: # root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc... # # genericstable: # # who is who on the outside adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] root [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # local-host-names: # localhost kayak kayak.flatland localhost.flatland # # genericsdomain # localhost kayak kayak.flatland localhost.flatland # # authinfo: # AuthInfo:my_isp.net I:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P:Pass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:33:57PM -0800, Adam Bozanich wrote: Hi all. I am having a really hard time getting sendmail to work for me. I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp account that requires smtp authentication. Judging by the .mc files and so forth you attached, you seem to have gone a long way towards achieving that. You don't mention SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) -- by default, the sendmail on FreeBSD doesn't contain any SASL functionality, but you will need to add it in order to use authentication. First install the security/cyrus-sasl2 port. Then edit your /etc/make.conf to change the sendmail(8) compilation to include linking in the SASL libraries: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 Then rebuild and re-install sendmail from the system sources. Easiest way to do that is to do a complete 'make buildworld, make installworld' cycle as documented in the handbook. Then you need to add the SASL options to your sendmail configuration, as you have done. There are some more detailed instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html (Those instructions actually apply to SASL v1 -- but it works almost identically with the SASL2 settingd as I showed above). See also: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html but those instructions are for an older version of sendmail, so you'll have to take care to work out what is still applicable. For now, I'd simply like to be able to send mail from this local machine. I think the problem I am having is that the from: field in emails still has my local user name, rather than the one required by my isp. That's what the genericstable stuff should fix for you. It's something that generally works really easily, so there's not that much in the way of HOWTOs about. See items 6 and 7 of: http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html You don't need the rest of the stuff described on that page. Use sendmail's address test mode (sendmail -bt) to check that the rewriting is occuring as intended. Here is the sendmail section of /etc/rc.conf: ### Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) options ## ## mta_start_script=/etc/rc.sendmail # Script to start your chosen MTA, called by /etc/rc. # Settings for /etc/rc.sendmail: sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd # Flags to sendmail (as a server) sendmail_submit_enable=YES # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost # Flags for localhost-only MTA sendmail_outbound_enable=YES# Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_outbound_flags=-L sm-queue -q1m # Flags to sendmail (outbound only) sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). # sendmail _msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m sendmail_msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q1m I don't really understand this at all. I changed the -q1m parts because I don't want sendmail to wait to send stuff... but I'm not sure if I should have. Eeek! Don't do that. '-q1m' means process the queue at a frequency of once per minute, not wait for a minute before doing anything. Sendmail MSP (Mail Submission Process) will try and send the message immediately (unless you go out of your way to configure it not to do that) -- you haven't mentioned any modifications to freebsd.submit.mc, which probably means you're using the default version. That's good -- it's quite unlikely you'll need to change that at all. If the message cannot be delivered at once, sendmail MSP will deposit it in the queue file for later action. Running the queue once per minute is far too often for a typical home user machine. There's no point in trying to flush the queue too often, as you need to give the intended recipients a chance to fix whatever was wrong. Plus you don't need to copy the defaults out of /etc/defaults/rc.conf wholesale. You can put just the settings you've modified into /etc/rc.conf. What does sendmail_msp_que do? Do I need it? That's a sendmail process that checks the MSP queue (/var/spool/clientmqueue) and attempts to inject any as yet unprocessed messages into your sendmail MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Yes, you almost definitely need it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: sendmail help?
I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't think you understand how your ISP works. ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, they consider it an security risk to their environment. Did your ISP tech support tell you they allow direct smtp access to their email services, or are you confusing pop3 access with smtp? You have to use fetchmail to retrieve your email from your ISP's pop3 server to populate your sendmail server. This is how all non-commercial users do it. Beside it's a whole lot easier to install the fetchmail package then reinstall sendmail with sasl support. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Seaman Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:10 AM To: Adam Bozanich Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sendmail help? On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:33:57PM -0800, Adam Bozanich wrote: Hi all. I am having a really hard time getting sendmail to work for me. I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp account that requires smtp authentication. Judging by the .mc files and so forth you attached, you seem to have gone a long way towards achieving that. You don't mention SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) -- by default, the sendmail on FreeBSD doesn't contain any SASL functionality, but you will need to add it in order to use authentication. First install the security/cyrus-sasl2 port. Then edit your /etc/make.conf to change the sendmail(8) compilation to include linking in the SASL libraries: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 Then rebuild and re-install sendmail from the system sources. Easiest way to do that is to do a complete 'make buildworld, make installworld' cycle as documented in the handbook. Then you need to add the SASL options to your sendmail configuration, as you have done. There are some more detailed instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth. html (Those instructions actually apply to SASL v1 -- but it works almost identically with the SASL2 settingd as I showed above). See also: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html but those instructions are for an older version of sendmail, so you'll have to take care to work out what is still applicable. For now, I'd simply like to be able to send mail from this local machine. I think the problem I am having is that the from: field in emails still has my local user name, rather than the one required by my isp. That's what the genericstable stuff should fix for you. It's something that generally works really easily, so there's not that much in the way of HOWTOs about. See items 6 and 7 of: http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html You don't need the rest of the stuff described on that page. Use sendmail's address test mode (sendmail -bt) to check that the rewriting is occuring as intended. Here is the sendmail section of /etc/rc.conf: ### Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) options ## ## mta_start_script=/etc/rc.sendmail # Script to start your chosen MTA, called by /etc/rc. # Settings for /etc/rc.sendmail: sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd # Flags to sendmail (as a server) sendmail_submit_enable=YES # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost # Flags for localhost-only MTA sendmail_outbound_enable=YES# Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_outbound_flags=-L sm-queue -q1m # Flags to sendmail (outbound only) sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). # sendmail _msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m sendmail_msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q1m I don't really understand this at all. I changed the -q1m parts because I don't want sendmail to wait to send stuff... but I'm not sure if I should have. Eeek! Don't do that. '-q1m' means process the queue at a frequency of once per minute, not wait for a minute before doing anything. Sendmail MSP (Mail Submission Process) will try and send the message immediately (unless you go out of your way to configure it not to do that) -- you haven't mentioned any modifications to freebsd.submit.mc, which probably means you're using the default version. That's good -- it's quite unlikely you'll need to change that at all. If the message cannot be delivered at once, sendmail MSP will deposit it in the queue file for later action. Running the queue once per minute is far too often for a typical home user machine. There's no point in trying to flush the queue too often, as you need to give the intended recipients a chance to fix whatever was wrong. Plus you don't need to copy the defaults out of /etc/defaults/rc.conf wholesale. You can put just the settings you've modified
RE: sendmail help?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't think you understand how your ISP works. ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, they consider it an security risk to their environment. Erm, the OP is trying to send mail, not receive it: Hi all. I am having a really hard time getting sendmail to work for me. I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp account that requires smtp authentication. ISPs generally do allow access to their servers for outgoing mail. Most of them positively encourage it, in fact :-) Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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fbsd_user wrote: I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't think you understand how your ISP works. ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, they consider it an security risk to their environment. Sorry, this isn't true. But they don't operate open relays. There are a number of ways to limit use to valid customers, such as only relaying for computers with ip addresses in a particular range or subnet or, as in this case, some form of authentication. If you have a dsl connection, you sometimes _have to_ send outgoing mail via your ISP's smtp servers. Some ISPs actually block all outgoing smtp traffic that is NOT routed through one of their servers. In other cases, ip address blocks used for DSL connections get blacklisted. I've just come across an example where this has happened with a major US academic institution and to quote their security team anonymously: quote We've received many complaints from our staff about spam which came directly from poorly administered/hacked machines in this particular domainname.obscured.com range, so we've blocked it. If you can arrange with someone else (ISP-name-obscured, for instance) to have your outbound e-mail sent through their mail servers, then we can accept your e-mail, but we no longer accept e-mail sent directly to us from mail servers sitting on dialup/DSL/cable/broadband/pooled connections. /quote I've been routing outgoing e-mail via the smtp servers of various ISPs for years. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't think you understand how your ISP works. ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, they consider it an security risk to their environment. Did are you serious ? i sometimes send mail out, by connecting to my ISP's smtp servers. i believe this practice is the same worldwide. however, due to spam and open relays, some isps may filter access to their smtp server to only allow thier customers. this can be done either thru smtp authentication or by ip address filtering (which malaysian isps use). Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yes I am serious. I have used 5 different ISP's over the years and not one let sendmail have direct access to their smtp email servers. They all required me to use their pop3 server which is something totally different. I believe the original poster was asking about using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server. And it's still a lot easier to install fetchmail than to reinstall sendmail. -Original Message- From: Dinesh Nair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:42 AM To: fbsd_user Cc: Matthew Seaman; Adam Bozanich; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: sendmail help? On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't think you understand how your ISP works. ISP's do not allow direct smtp access to their email servers, they consider it an security risk to their environment. Did are you serious ? i sometimes send mail out, by connecting to my ISP's smtp servers. i believe this practice is the same worldwide. however, due to spam and open relays, some isps may filter access to their smtp server to only allow thier customers. this can be done either thru smtp authentication or by ip address filtering (which malaysian isps use). Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo ==+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=== ==+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail help?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:43:45AM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: I believe the original poster was asking about using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server. And it's still a lot easier to install fetchmail than to reinstall sendmail. The OP said: I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp account that requires smtp authentication. Which part of outgoing are you having difficulty understanding? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sendmail help?
- Original Message - From: fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Adam Bozanich [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:43 AM Subject: RE: sendmail help? Yes I am serious. I have used 5 different ISP's over the years and not one let sendmail have direct access to their smtp email servers. They all required me to use their pop3 server which is something totally different. I believe the original poster was asking about using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server. And it's still a lot easier to install fetchmail than to reinstall sendmail. Did you place pop3.ispname.com in your smtp server field of Outlook and change the default port 25 to something else? If you didn't change the port, then their smtp daemon is listening for your traffinc on port 25 of the same server that they're running pop3 on. This isn't too uncommon. If the OP was asking about getting the ISP smtp server to send to his sendmail. For that to happen, at minimum, the following has to be done. He's got a static ip and the isp places a forward on his ISP account to forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and his system is configured to accept mail for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, or, he has a domain assigned with an mx record pointing to his home system. Fetchmail can't retrieve mail from an smtp server that I am currently aware of as it's designed to speak pop protocol and then deliver it locally to an awaiting smtp server for local delivery. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail help?
- Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Adam Bozanich [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:57 AM Subject: Re: sendmail help? On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:43:45AM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: I believe the original poster was asking about using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server. And it's still a lot easier to install fetchmail than to reinstall sendmail. The OP said: I have a dial up DSL account that gives me an outgoing smtp account that requires smtp authentication. Which part of outgoing are you having difficulty understanding? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK Apparently he's having trouble understanding a number of things lately and I'm beginning to wonder if he's a troll or not. To assist the OP on this issue, check out this link: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html#DefaultAuthInfo Within that site, it will give you assistance in setting up sendmail to act as an smtp client using smtp-auth. snippet DefaultAuthInfo (confDEF_AUTH_INFO) specifies a file in which the authorization identity, the authentication identity, the secret, and the realm to be used for authentication are stored. This file must be in a safe directory and unreadable by everyone except root (or TrustedUser). It is used when sendmail acts as a client to authenticate itself to a server. Example: admin admin MySecretPassword example.domain Notes: all data is case sensitive (usually) and the entire line is used in each case (including any white space!). recommended filename: /etc/mail/default-auth-info /snippet I trust this is what the OP's original intentions were. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Micheal Patterson wrote: Fetchmail can't retrieve mail from an smtp server that I am currently aware of as it's designed to speak pop protocol and then deliver it locally to an awaiting smtp server for local delivery. Fetchmail can use various protocols, including etrn, which is used to flush queues on smtp servers. This is a common protocol: Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 ship without a pop3 client and use etrn exclusively (unless you install some 3rd party client). So you can use sendmail to collect mail using etrn, and most ISPs offer etrn, but this isn't what the OP was asking about. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Micheal Patterson wrote: I believe the original poster was asking about using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server. And it's still a lot easier to install fetchmail than to reinstall sendmail. I use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my isp's pop server. Apparently he's having trouble understanding a number of things lately and I'm beginning to wonder if he's a troll or not. That's a bit harsh. http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html#DefaultAuthInfo Within that site, it will give you assistance in setting up sendmail to act as an smtp client using smtp-auth. snippet DefaultAuthInfo (confDEF_AUTH_INFO) specifies a file in which the authorization identity, the authentication identity, the secret, and the realm to be used for authentication are stored. This file must be in a safe directory and unreadable by everyone except root (or TrustedUser). It is used when sendmail acts as a client to authenticate itself to a server. Example: admin admin MySecretPassword example.domain Notes: all data is case sensitive (usually) and the entire line is used in each case (including any white space!). recommended filename: /etc/mail/default-auth-info /snippet I trust this is what the OP's original intentions were. Yes, it was. Thank you. I really don't see what the big mix up was... I guess I didn't post my problem clearly. I have tried the /etc/mail/default-auth-info method (I have read that page), but I just can't get it to work. I have also read that the new way to do it is with the /etc/mail/authinfo file, with the format I gave earlier. I have compiled sendmail with sasl (1) support. But I don't think that the smtp-auth part is the issue. As I stated before, I believe the problem is that sendmail is not translating my name in the from section of the email. When The mail gets rejected, it gets send back with From: [EMAIL PROTECTED], My isp wants it to be From [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is probably not too difficult to fix, but I can't see where I am going wrong. I can't seem to find any good tutorials/documentation on getting a simple sendmail client working with a dynamic ip address using smtp authentication, If anybody has any references they'd like to share, or any suggestions for me to try it would be greatly appreciated. What about my sendmail_msp_que question? what does this component of sendmail do? (do I need it?) TIA -Adam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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- Original Message - From: Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: sendmail help? Micheal Patterson wrote: Fetchmail can't retrieve mail from an smtp server that I am currently aware of as it's designed to speak pop protocol and then deliver it locally to an awaiting smtp server for local delivery. Fetchmail can use various protocols, including etrn, which is used to flush queues on smtp servers. This is a common protocol: Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 ship without a pop3 client and use etrn exclusively (unless you install some 3rd party client). So you can use sendmail to collect mail using etrn, and most ISPs offer etrn, but this isn't what the OP was asking about. PWR. The only current reference that I had when I made that post was for version 5.7.2 which states in it's man page: In ETRN and ODMR modes, fetchmail does not actually retrieve messages; instead, it asks the server's SMTP lis- tener to start a queue flush to the client via SMTP. Therefore it sends only undelivered messages. I've not used fetchmail for quite some time simply because I've no need to do so. If that's not the current version, then that may have changed considerably. But, as you stated, the OP was asking about smtp-auth via sendmail. -- Micheal Patterson Network Administration TSG Incorporated 405-917-0600 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail help
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:06:51AM -0600, Kenzo wrote: I did a make world and this is what I get at the next reboot. Starting standard daemons: inetd cron sshd sendmailsendmail:execing /usr/local/sbin/sendmail:No such file or directory looks like your postfix sendmail binary was removed. are the config files in /usr/local/etc/postfix/ also missing? and reboot, it hangs when it's trying to load the daemons. press CTRL+C, look in the maillog, and try to start postfix manually (postfix start). toni -- Behandle die Menschen, als wären sie, was sie sein | [EMAIL PROTECTED] sollten, und du wirst ihnen helfen, zu werden, was | Toni Schmidbauer sie sein können. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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On 0, Kenzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did have NO_SENDMAIL= true in my make.conf file. maybe you did mergemaster and replaced stuff in /etc and /etc/mail? /ayn -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://aynassociates.com pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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I did a make world and this is what I get at the next reboot. Starting standard daemons: inetd cron sshd sendmailsendmail:execing /usr/local/sbin/sendmail:No such file or directory this is my mailer.conf # # Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail I originally replaced sendmail with postfix. and it used to work fine until after the make world. here is part of my rc.conf. sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_flags=-bd sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO sshd_enable=YES If I change the mailer.conf file to sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/sbin/sendmail and reboot, it hangs when it's trying to load the daemons. what can I do to fix this? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I did a make world and this is what I get at the next reboot. Starting standard daemons: inetd cron sshd sendmailsendmail:execing /usr/local/sbin/sendmail:No such file or directory this is my mailer.conf # # Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail I have /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail instead. I originally replaced sendmail with postfix. and it used to work fine until after the make world. here is part of my rc.conf. sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_flags=-bd sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO sshd_enable=YES If I change the mailer.conf file to sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/sbin/sendmail and reboot, it hangs when it's trying to load the daemons. I think the real sendmail is at /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail, not /usr/sbin/sendmail, which points to mailwrapper what can I do to fix this? if you want to continue to use postfix, try re-installing the postfix port, it should fix it. (i haven't used postfix myself, but looks like the pkg-install script would take care of replacing the sendmail setup) if you don't want sendmail to be installed when you do a make world, put the following line in /etc/make.conf: NO_SENDMAIL= true /ayn -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://aynassociates.com pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Hi! I did a make world and this is what I get at the next reboot. Starting standard daemons: inetd cron sshd sendmailsendmail:execing /usr/local/sbin/sendmail:No such file or directory Ouch! Sounds like somehow the Postfix binary got lost during the upgrade... this is my mailer.conf # # Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail I originally replaced sendmail with postfix. and it used to work fine until after the make world. The trick of keeping your postfix alive through the 'make world' procedure is to have NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE in /etc/make.conf and during mergemaster make sure you don't let it replace anything under /etc/mail. sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_flags=-bd sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO I have it exactly the same way on my Postfix server. what can I do to fix this? I would try to re-install the Postfix port. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * A woman's husband's previous wife is called her 'wife-in-law.' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-15 00:41:42 +0200: On 2003-02-14 18:08, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-14 03:51:22 +0200: You have only enabled mail submission through a network connection to port 25, but not submission of mail from local users. I suggest that you read at least /etc/mail/README and the rc.sendmail(8) manpage. Hi Giorgos, it was always my understanding that sendmail_enable=YES will turn Sendmail on wholesale: commandline submits, inbound, outbound. Not really. sendmail_enable=YES turns on only the non-localhost daemon. Note that I was wrong in my previous post, but for a different reason. Since /etc/defaults/rc.conf sets sendmail_xxx_enable=YES, the dequeueing of local mail will be automatically enabled. well, that's what I was trying to say: given the values in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, having only sendmail_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf will enable Sendmail wholesale. on -STABLE, that is. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
On 2003-02-17 16:41, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-15 00:41:42 +0200: it was always my understanding that sendmail_enable=YES will turn Sendmail on wholesale: commandline submits, inbound, outbound. Not really. sendmail_enable=YES turns on only the non-localhost daemon. [...] well, that's what I was trying to say: given the values in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, having only sendmail_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf will enable Sendmail wholesale. on -STABLE, that is. Aye. I misunderstood you, then. Probably because sendmail_enable is not enough for enabling local mail delivery too. Sorry about that... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
On 2003-02-14 17:11, Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos: As a refresher, below are the /etc/defaults/rc.conf Unless, the /etc/rc.conf overrides, these turn on as stated. Based on the below, what is not turned on??? [...] sendmail_enable=YES # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE). sendmail_submit_enable=YES# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_outbound_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). The defaults are a bit different in STABLE vs. CURRENT (note sendmail_enable=NO). In my CURRENT installation, the defaults are: sendmail_enable=NO # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO). sendmail_submit_enable=YES # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_outbound_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). Well, anyway... The rc.sendmail script supports the following setups: Setup 1. Sendmail accepts mail both on localhost:25 and over the network at address:25 ports. When you set sendmail_enable=YES, it overrides two rc.conf variables, sendmail_submit_enable and sendmail_outbound_enable. A sendmail process is started with /var/spool/mqueue as the queue directory, and mail accepted over a connection to port 25 is delivered as usual through the /var/spool/mqueue queue. You have to also sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES too in this case, to allow local users to deliver mail to Sendmail over an SMTP connection to localhost:25, or use a cron job. The MSP queue runner does *NOT* listen on any port, but runs periodically dequeueing mail from /var/spool/clientmqueue and passing it to the localhost:25 daemon (or any other host that you have configured in your submit.mc config file). Alternatively, you can keep sendmail_msp_queue_enable set to NO, and use a crontab entry to dequeue mail from clientmqueue by running: sendmail -q -Ac Note that you still have to create a valid submit.cf file, even if you use cron to dequeue mail from clientmqueue. Suggested rc.conf entries: - sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES - 2. Sendmail accepts mail only over a connection to port 25 of the localhost interface. To make this work as expected, sendmail_enable should be NO and at the same time sendmail_submit_enable should be yes. Sendmail will start, but listen only on localhost:25 and use /var/spool/mqueue for mail that is received over an smtp connection to the localhost:25 port. This is a very nice setup for dialup users who don't want their Sendmail daemon to listen on any other interface; just loopback. Delivery of outgoing mail still works like a charm, since the daemon started by sendmail_submit_enable will periodically flush /var/spool/mqueue and send mail out. An MSP queue runner or cron job is needed in this sort of setup too. See above. Suggested rc.conf entries: - sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=YES sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES - 3. Sendmail doesn't accept any sort of mail over smtp. It only runs the queue /var/spool/mqueue periodically. This is what sendmail_outbound_enable=YES is most useful for. There are two ways to do this. One of them is with a setuid sendmail process, and one without. 3.a. Setuid-root sendmail process Follow the instructions in /etc/mail/README for changing back to a setuid-root Sendmail setup: chown root /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail chmod 4755 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail rm /etc/mail/submit.cf 3.b. Non-setuid root Sendmail process A bit tricky; you have to manually copy sendmail.cf to submit.cf and set DeliveryMode=queue in submit.cf. This is a setup that I haven't tested a lot, but I'll have some time this weekend. Note: You can not use a clientmqueue runner with this sort of setup, because there is no daemon on localhost:25 to receive the connections from the clientmqueue runner. Suggested rc.conf entries: - sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO
Re: need some sendmail help
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-14 03:51:22 +0200: On 2003-02-13 20:38, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 0, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-02-13 15:21, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this might seem stupid, but for some reasons on one of my servers running freebsd -stable, mail just doesn't work, I keep seeing: Feb 13 14:16:52 ngbert sendmail[50411]: h1DKGqL1050411: to=ayn, ctladdr=ayn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30023, relay=localhost.my.domain., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain. - What sendmail_xxx_enable options have you turned on in /etc/rc.conf? ayn@NGBERT:/etcgrep sendmail rc.conf sendmail_enable=YES This is where the problem lies. You have only enabled mail submission through a network connection to port 25, but not submission of mail from local users. I suggest that you read at least /etc/mail/README and the rc.sendmail(8) manpage. Hi Giorgos, it was always my understanding that sendmail_enable=YES will turn Sendmail on wholesale: commandline submits, inbound, outbound. rc.sendmail(8) certainly doesn't counter that interpretation, and reading /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.sendmail confirms it... Or I'm reading it wrong, which is more than possible. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
On 2003-02-14 18:08, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-14 03:51:22 +0200: You have only enabled mail submission through a network connection to port 25, but not submission of mail from local users. I suggest that you read at least /etc/mail/README and the rc.sendmail(8) manpage. Hi Giorgos, it was always my understanding that sendmail_enable=YES will turn Sendmail on wholesale: commandline submits, inbound, outbound. Not really. sendmail_enable=YES turns on only the non-localhost daemon. Note that I was wrong in my previous post, but for a different reason. Since /etc/defaults/rc.conf sets sendmail_xxx_enable=YES, the dequeueing of local mail will be automatically enabled. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
At 12:41 AM 2.15.2003 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2003-02-14 18:08, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-14 03:51:22 +0200: You have only enabled mail submission through a network connection to port 25, but not submission of mail from local users. I suggest that you read at least /etc/mail/README and the rc.sendmail(8) manpage. Hi Giorgos, it was always my understanding that sendmail_enable=YES will turn Sendmail on wholesale: commandline submits, inbound, outbound. Not really. sendmail_enable=YES turns on only the non-localhost daemon. Note that I was wrong in my previous post, but for a different reason. Since /etc/defaults/rc.conf sets sendmail_xxx_enable=YES, the dequeueing of local mail will be automatically enabled. Giorgos: As a refresher, below are the /etc/defaults/rc.conf Unless, the /etc/rc.conf overrides, these turn on as stated. Based on the below, what is not turned on??? ### Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) options ## ## mta_start_script=/etc/rc.sendmail # Script to start your chosen MTA, called by /etc/rc. # Settings for /etc/rc.sendmail: sendmail_enable=YES # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE). # If NONE, don't start any sendmail processes. sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m # Flags to sendmail (as a server) sendmail_submit_enable=YES# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost # Flags for localhost-only MTA sendmail_outbound_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_outbound_flags=-L sm-queue -q30m # Flags to sendmail (outbound only) sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). sendmail_msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m # Flags for sendmail_msp_queue daemon. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
PS: If you're about to ask ``Why isn't all this in the Handbook already?'' suffice it to say that I've been experimenting and reading about Sendmail a lot the past few weeks. I'm trying now to collect all the notes from the mess I have in my bedroom and sit my lazy *ss down to write a new Sendmail chapter for the Handbook. Thank you for your fine writeup! For some time I have been struggling to set up a network with the following configuration: 2x R4.7p4s and 1x W2k boxes on the local LAN and a R4.6 box as the gateway to the world on a ADSL line. A registered domain is pointing to my fixed IP address. All boxes can exchange mail on the LAN, send mail to the wide world and fetch mail using fetchmail. But mail to my registered domain seems to go to device zero. I am left with questions like what is the difference in sendmail configuration between the LAN PCs and the gateway PC? How can I check that my ISP has me set up properly for resolving reverse lookups? My MX records at zoneedit.com? Will my ISPs mail server cooperate? When you write the new Handbook chapter I hope you will keep the home user in mind and cover some of my points. And of course, if you should have any references that I should consult, I would appreciate any pointer! Thank you from Kjell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
On 2003-02-13 15:21, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this might seem stupid, but for some reasons on one of my servers running freebsd -stable, mail just doesn't work, I keep seeing: Feb 13 14:16:52 ngbert sendmail[50411]: h1DKGqL1050411: to=ayn, ctladdr=ayn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30023, relay=localhost.my.domain., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain. - What sendmail_xxx_enable options have you turned on in /etc/rc.conf? - What options have you configured in your /etc/mail/*.mc files? - What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts files? Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
On 0, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-02-13 15:21, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this might seem stupid, but for some reasons on one of my servers running freebsd -stable, mail just doesn't work, I keep seeing: Feb 13 14:16:52 ngbert sendmail[50411]: h1DKGqL1050411: to=ayn, ctladdr=ayn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30023, relay=localhost.my.domain., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain. - What sendmail_xxx_enable options have you turned on in /etc/rc.conf? ayn@NGBERT:/etcgrep sendmail rc.conf sendmail_enable=YES - What options have you configured in your /etc/mail/*.mc files? ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailgrep define *mc|grep -v dnl freebsd.mc:define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') freebsd.mc:define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') freebsd.mc:define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128') freebsd.mc:define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') freebsd.mc:define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') - What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts files? ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailcat /etc/resolv.conf search attbi.com nameserver 63.240.76.19 nameserver 204.127.198.19 ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailcat /etc/host.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailcat /etc/host.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis thanks! -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com msg19438/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: need some sendmail help
forgot /etc/hosts: ayn@NGBERT:~egrep -v \^# /etc/hosts ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.thelin.com eagan.homeunix.net 192.168.1.100 aynlaptop andrew 192.168.1.102 ngbert ngbert.thelin.com 12.109.66.145 andrewng.com 192.168.1.103 johnbert john I think that ::1 line might've been the problem... /ayn On 0, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 0, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-02-13 15:21, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this might seem stupid, but for some reasons on one of my servers running freebsd -stable, mail just doesn't work, I keep seeing: Feb 13 14:16:52 ngbert sendmail[50411]: h1DKGqL1050411: to=ayn, ctladdr=ayn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30023, relay=localhost.my.domain., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain. - What sendmail_xxx_enable options have you turned on in /etc/rc.conf? ayn@NGBERT:/etcgrep sendmail rc.conf sendmail_enable=YES - What options have you configured in your /etc/mail/*.mc files? ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailgrep define *mc|grep -v dnl freebsd.mc:define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') freebsd.mc:define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') freebsd.mc:define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128') freebsd.mc:define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') freebsd.mc:define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') ngbert.thelin.com.mc:define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') - What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts files? ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailcat /etc/resolv.conf search attbi.com nameserver 63.240.76.19 nameserver 204.127.198.19 ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailcat /etc/host.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis ayn@NGBERT:/etc/mailcat /etc/host.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis thanks! -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://aynassociates.com msg19439/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: need some sendmail help
On 2003-02-13 20:38, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 0, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-02-13 15:21, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this might seem stupid, but for some reasons on one of my servers running freebsd -stable, mail just doesn't work, I keep seeing: Feb 13 14:16:52 ngbert sendmail[50411]: h1DKGqL1050411: to=ayn, ctladdr=ayn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30023, relay=localhost.my.domain., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain. - What sendmail_xxx_enable options have you turned on in /etc/rc.conf? ayn@NGBERT:/etcgrep sendmail rc.conf sendmail_enable=YES This is where the problem lies. You have only enabled mail submission through a network connection to port 25, but not submission of mail from local users. I suggest that you read at least /etc/mail/README and the rc.sendmail(8) manpage. Look at the description of sendmail_submit_enable in rc.sendmail(8) and in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need some sendmail help
On 2003-02-13 20:42, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgot /etc/hosts: ayn@NGBERT:~egrep -v \^# /etc/hosts ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.thelin.com eagan.homeunix.net 192.168.1.100 aynlaptop andrew 192.168.1.102 ngbert ngbert.thelin.com 12.109.66.145 andrewng.com 192.168.1.103 johnbert john I think that ::1 line might've been the problem... No, that's fine. It's the loopback address for IPv6. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
need some sendmail help
this might seem stupid, but for some reasons on one of my servers running freebsd -stable, mail just doesn't work, I keep seeing: Feb 13 14:16:52 ngbert sendmail[50411]: h1DKGqL1050411: to=ayn, ctladdr=ayn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30023, relay=localhost.my.domain., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain. I added localhost and stuff in the access database but still doesn't work... I must be missing something obvious... I tried specifying smart host to be my isp's smtp server but that didn't work either... i got a lot of stuff queued up in the clientmqueue folder... :) any help would be highly appreciated, thank you! -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com msg19448/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: need some sendmail help
i got rid of the localhost.my.domain. line in /etc/hosts now i don't get connection refused anymore... i guess it looked at the hosts file and used that name instead of just localhost, and I didn't have that in my access database. now I'm getting a user unknown error... heh.. thanks! /ayn On 0, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-02-13 20:38, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 0, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-02-13 15:21, Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this might seem stupid, but for some reasons on one of my servers running freebsd -stable, mail just doesn't work, I keep seeing: Feb 13 14:16:52 ngbert sendmail[50411]: h1DKGqL1050411: to=ayn, ctladdr=ayn (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30023, relay=localhost.my.domain., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.my.domain. - What sendmail_xxx_enable options have you turned on in /etc/rc.conf? ayn@NGBERT:/etcgrep sendmail rc.conf sendmail_enable=YES This is where the problem lies. You have only enabled mail submission through a network connection to port 25, but not submission of mail from local users. I suggest that you read at least /etc/mail/README and the rc.sendmail(8) manpage. Look at the description of sendmail_submit_enable in rc.sendmail(8) and in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. - Giorgos -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://aynassociates.com msg19460/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
