Re: receiving my own mail using sendmail
I kind of solved the problem. I am using pppoe to connect to my BB provider over eth1 with an IP address 192.168.3.1. when sendmail starts, it binded itsefl to eth1 rather than the pppoe interface. My named's MX on the other hands pointed at my eth0 (the internal network card) that had an IP of 192.168.2.1 Could I control the interface to which sendmail listen? I prefer it to bind to my internal network card and have MX pointing to eth0 on the server instead... Well... 127.0.0.1 is the local loopback address. It always points to the machine that you're currently on and thus you need to use your internet resolvable ip (eg .24.222.111.123), not merely localhost, for the address record connected with it. -- The pivotal point is the second chance, judged by another set of criteria. In Linux We Trust -- http://linux.nf and news://news.hkpcug.org ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: receiving my own mail using sendmail
I see. if I am to pump in my real IP address, I needed to use a script to generate the zone file using /etc/ppp/ip-up (my ISP used pppoe), and restarts named afterward. Does named have a runtime paramters to achieve that? or say could I point MX into an executable script? 10 IN MX localhost 20 IN MX localhost localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 #snipped machine that you're currently on and thus you need to use your internet resolvable ip (eg .24.222.111.123), not merely localhost, for the address record connected with it. -- The pivotal point is the second chance, judged by another set of criteria. In Linux We Trust -- http://linux.nf and news://news.hkpcug.org ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: receiving my own mail using sendmail
That's as far as I could go after reading all relevant messages from linux.nf and sendmail.org. if a guru could point out the errors in my scripts My server is named server.myname.org This is a FAQ specifically dealth with in the sendmail FAQ at http://www.sendmail.org/. My private domain is myname.org. I am using myname.homeip.net as the dynamic DNS name. /var/named/pz/myname.org: # snipped $ORIGIN myname.org. 10 IN MX localhost 20 IN MX localhost localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 #snipped /etc/mail/mailertable: homeip.netsmtp:[localhost] homeip.net. smtp:[localhost] /etc/mail/local-host-names: myname.org -- The pivotal point is the second chance, judged by another set of criteria. In Linux We Trust -- http://linux.nf and news://news.hkpcug.org ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: receiving my own mail using sendmail
On January 5, 2002 11:27 pm, Chang wrote: 553 5.3.5 localhost.myname.org. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) $ORIGIN myname.org. 10 IN MX localhost 20 IN MX localhost localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 #snipped Well... 127.0.0.1 is the local loopback address. It always points to the machine that you're currently on and thus you need to use your internet resolvable ip (eg .24.222.111.123), not merely localhost, for the address record connected with it. David Aikema ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
receiving my own mail using sendmail
This is such an old question. But I guess I could really learn something. I was trying to send my sendmail a email messages from my yahoo account. And I got the usual newbie error: 553 5.3.5 localhost.myname.org. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) what did I miss? I got no 553 if I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did I misread some docs? My private domain is myname.org. I am using myname.homeip.net as the dynamic DNS name. /var/named/pz/myname.org: # snipped $ORIGIN myname.org. 10 IN MX localhost 20 IN MX localhost localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 #snipped /etc/mail/mailertable: homeip.net smtp:[localhost] homeip.net. smtp:[localhost] /etc/mail/local-host-names: myname.org -- The pivotal point is the second chance, judged by another set of criteria. In Linux We Trust -- http://linux.nf and news://news.hkpcug.org ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: receiving my own mail using sendmail
On January 06, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly: This is such an old question. But I guess I could really learn something. I was trying to send my sendmail a email messages from my yahoo account. And I got the usual newbie error: 553 5.3.5 localhost.myname.org. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) what did I miss? I got no 553 if I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did I misread some docs? My private domain is myname.org. I am using myname.homeip.net as the dynamic DNS name. /var/named/pz/myname.org: # snipped $ORIGIN myname.org. 10 IN MX localhost 20 IN MX localhost localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 #snipped /etc/mail/mailertable: homeip.netsmtp:[localhost] homeip.net. smtp:[localhost] /etc/mail/local-host-names: myname.org This is a FAQ specifically dealth with in the sendmail FAQ at http://www.sendmail.org/. Kurt -- You are magnetic in your bearing. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
