Sendmail questions
Morning everyone. I have a few questions in general about Sendmail and a few in regards to sendmail on FreeBSD. (NOTE: I do use postfix for a lot of my mail servers, but for one particular instance, I need to use Sendmail.) My first question is about resources for learning Sendmail. I currently have the Bat book and have been using it to work my around sendmail, but the learning curve is pretty steep and im looking for other resources as well. Does anyone recommend any web sites other books that can help start the learning process for sendmail? I can be quite trivial at times. :) Second question is in regards to Sendmail on FreeBSD. I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.9 and the version that comes shipped with 4.9 is 8.12.9p I believe. I want to know what is the best way to go about upgrading sendmail on FreeBSD boxes? Is it better to build sendmail out of the ports tree? Or, is it better to d/l the source and compile it manually. Is there a difference? Is one better than the other? I appreciate the help. Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail questions
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:14:29AM -0800, Jason Williams wrote: Morning everyone. I have a few questions in general about Sendmail and a few in regards to sendmail on FreeBSD. (NOTE: I do use postfix for a lot of my mail servers, but for one particular instance, I need to use Sendmail.) My first question is about resources for learning Sendmail. I currently have the Bat book and have been using it to work my around sendmail, but the learning curve is pretty steep and im looking for other resources as well. Does anyone recommend any web sites other books that can help start the learning process for sendmail? I can be quite trivial at times. :) Second question is in regards to Sendmail on FreeBSD. I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.9 and the version that comes shipped with 4.9 is 8.12.9p I believe. I want to know what is the best way to go about upgrading sendmail on FreeBSD boxes? Is it better to build sendmail out of the ports tree? Or, is it better to d/l the source and compile it manually. Is there a difference? Is one better than the other? I appreciate the help. Jason Dear Jason, To answer your first question: I usaly go to www.sendmail.org; I did find this website hard to follow the first couple of time. So this may also be the case for you. To anser you second question: The difference is that the port version is more up to date. I personaly stick with the the default, unleas I have reason to do otherwise. I have trust in the FreeBSD team and update the base system when this is needed so i'm not wurried about the securty. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail questions
My first question is about resources for learning Sendmail. I currently have the Bat book and have been using it to work my around sendmail, but the learning curve is pretty steep and im looking for other resources as well. Does anyone recommend any web sites other books that can help start the learning process for sendmail? I can be quite trivial at times. :) sendmail Cookbook by Craig Hunt (O'Reilly) is great if you want to learn-by-examples. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail questions
At 02:09 25.03.2003 +0200, you wrote: On 2003-03-24 15:14, Andreas Wider?e Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got two questions: 1. I've been getting this error all day on both of my FreeBSD servers (different physic location and version - 4.7 STABLE and 4.8 RC): ... did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. I'm seing this in my /var/log/maillog file and since the problems occured around 04.30 this morning I haven't received any mails. Can anyone please explain to me what's going on? Both servers have been delivering mail for a long problem-free time. I'm running Sendmail 8.12.7 (patched) and 8.12.8. What's the deal with the two different version numbers? Are you running two different Sendmail versions on the same machine? No, they are on 2 different servers. 2. When the mail server isn't sending out mail or relaying, all mail sent from localhost end up in here: /var/spool/clientmqueue. How can I manually send these mails off later? It looks like one of the sendmail processes that should runn on your system for mail to work somehow dies. What does this show? # ps xauww | grep sendmail root 484 0.0 0.3 2784 1660 ?? Ss6:07PM 0:03.47 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) smmsp495 0.0 0.3 2656 1552 ?? Is6:08PM 0:00.05 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) I got the problem solved. What solved the problem for me was to remove all the dnsbl blacklistings, recompile the cf file and restart my Sendmail. Now it works fine again. I will let things calm down before I start adding those dnsbls again. I wasn't the only one getting this problem, and all of us got it fixed by removing dnsbl features. /Andreas --- Andreas Widerøe Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pragma AS http://www.pragma.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Sendmail questions
I've got two questions: 1. I've been getting this error all day on both of my FreeBSD servers (different physic location and version - 4.7 STABLE and 4.8 RC): ... did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. I'm seing this in my /var/log/maillog file and since the problems occured around 04.30 this morning I haven't received any mails. Can anyone please explain to me what's going on? Both servers have been delivering mail for a long problem-free time. I'm running Sendmail 8.12.7 (patched) and 8.12.8. 2. When the mail server isn't sending out mail or relaying, all mail sent from localhost end up in here: /var/spool/clientmqueue. How can I manually send these mails off later? Thanks! Andreas --- Andreas Widerøe Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pragma AS http://www.pragma.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sendmail questions
On 2003-03-24 15:14, Andreas Wider?e Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got two questions: 1. I've been getting this error all day on both of my FreeBSD servers (different physic location and version - 4.7 STABLE and 4.8 RC): ... did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. I'm seing this in my /var/log/maillog file and since the problems occured around 04.30 this morning I haven't received any mails. Can anyone please explain to me what's going on? Both servers have been delivering mail for a long problem-free time. I'm running Sendmail 8.12.7 (patched) and 8.12.8. What's the deal with the two different version numbers? Are you running two different Sendmail versions on the same machine? 2. When the mail server isn't sending out mail or relaying, all mail sent from localhost end up in here: /var/spool/clientmqueue. How can I manually send these mails off later? It looks like one of the sendmail processes that should runn on your system for mail to work somehow dies. What does this show? # ps xauww | grep sendmail - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sendmail questions
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Andreas [iso-8859-1] Widerøe Andersen wrote: I've got two questions: 1. I've been getting this error all day on both of my FreeBSD servers (different physic location and version - 4.7 STABLE and 4.8 RC): ... did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA. I'm seing this in my /var/log/maillog file and since the problems occured around 04.30 this morning I haven't received any mails. Can anyone please explain to me what's going on? Both servers have been delivering mail for a long problem-free time. I'm running Sendmail 8.12.7 (patched) and 8.12.8. I see errors like this when people telnet to port 25 and don't do anything (usually me, checking the version in the banner that's printed). It's not usually a problem, and I would guess is probably not related to sendmail dying. Can you simply restart sendmail (sendmail -bd -q1h and sendmail -Ac -q1h), or will it not restart? 2. When the mail server isn't sending out mail or relaying, all mail sent from localhost end up in here: /var/spool/clientmqueue. How can I manually send these mails off later? Run sendmail -Ac -q1h. This will scan /var/spool/clientmqueue every hour and flush out anything that's there. If I had a 4.x box around here, I could give you better instructions to make it start at boot (in 5.0, sendmail_msp_queue_enable defaults to YES, and rc starts that daemon; I'm not sure how 4.x handles it). - Jeff Jirsa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sendmail questions
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:49:17PM +0700, budsz wrote: OK, If I turn off this option (daily_submit_queuerun) of couse error message doen't apparent but this step lessen information right?. How if change queue sendmail system to queue qmail system. This purpose is I'll get cron message from queue qmail system. It's possible sir? If you're using qmail, there's no such thing as a 'submit' mail queue --- qmail is all in one like sendmail used to be. So turning off this report doesn't lose you anything at all. Anyway I found sendmail submit or other option sendmail in (/etc/default/rc.conf) for new version FreeBSD, Before this, I use FreeBSD 4.6 STABLE, I didn't found this option. So this utilities for what..? Yes --- this is a new feature in sendmail, imported into FreeBSD around March 2002 (which was between 4.5-RELEASE and 4.6-RELEASE actually). The sendmail functionality has been divided between two processes: sm-msp, the Mail Submission Process and sm-mta, the Mail Transport Agent. This means that the sendmail binary no-longer needs to be SUID root. See http://www.sendmail.org/%7Eca/email/doc8.12/SECURITY for a fuller explanation. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Sendmail questions
Hi, I got some message from cron daemon like: ---cut Mail in local queue: Mail in submit queue: mailq: illegal option -- A sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -fsender ] [ -Fname] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg... ] ---cut Whereas I was try to disable sendmail daemon from /etc/rc.conf like: ---cut # Settings for /etc/rc.sendmail: sendmail_enable=NONE # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE). sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m # Flags to sendmail (as a server) sendmail_submit_enable=NO # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission sendmail_submit_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost sendmail_outbound_enable=NO # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). sendmail_outbound_flags=-L sm-queue -q30m # Flags to sendmail (outbound only) sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). sendmail_msp_queue_flags=-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m # Flags for sendmail_msp_queue daemon. ---cut How to resolve this problem? PS : Now I use qmail system for email. TIA -- budsz To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
