Re: Sendmail Question: Smart Host Round-Robin In Mailertable?
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:51:59 -0500, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: A bit OT, but I'm hoping one of you resident geniuses can point me to an answer I have a situation where I need to set up round-robin across several smart hosts in the sendmail mailertable for all traffic. (For a variety of reasons, the client does not want this done in either the .mc file or directly in the .cf file.) Can some kind soul point me to a resource that explains the syntax for doing this? Maybe a DNS-based round robin solution would suffice? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sendmail Question: Smart Host Round-Robin In Mailertable?
On 10/27/2010 3:26 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:51:59 -0500, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: A bit OT, but I'm hoping one of you resident geniuses can point me to an answer I have a situation where I need to set up round-robin across several smart hosts in the sendmail mailertable for all traffic. (For a variety of reasons, the client does not want this done in either the .mc file or directly in the .cf file.) Can some kind soul point me to a resource that explains the syntax for doing this? Maybe a DNS-based round robin solution would suffice? DNS cannot be changed for a variety of reasons... -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sendmail question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dylan Smith wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:54 AMJul 26, 2007, Dylan Smith wrote: I am currently on the last stages of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE File and Network Application Server. One of my last tasks is to simple forward all mail from root out through my isp's SMTP(requires authentication) server and to an email account i have elsewhere. That is to say i have no purpose for a mail server other than to handle mail from things like periodic and to move that mail elsewhere. Can this be easily accomplished? If so are there any guides/how-to's? I have done a search around my usual BSD sites and books and found nothing that is easily modified to my circumstances. It can be done, but it's a PITA with Sendmail. Look into /usr/ports/mail/ssmtp. We use it on our systems here where we need to simply get root's email off the box. Simple configuration file, works well. Thanks for that little suggestion. Would this mean that i could just disable sendmail totally(sendmail_enable=none)? Hmmm... no one seems to have cottoned onto the 'requires authentication' statement in the original message. As far as I can tell, ssmtp only allows authentication via the use of cryptographic certificates -- which is probably the most secure way of doing authentication but also tends not to be supported on many mail systems. If you need support for most client-side mail auth mechanisms, then sendmail is probably the least effort to set up -- and it is not really that hard to do IMHO. All you need to do is: * Make sure /etc/rc.conf contains sendmail_enable=NO Which might seem a bit odd, but actually gives you a setup with no sendmail listening on port 25 (so no incoming mail), but with everything it needs to send outgoing mail. * edit /etc/mail/aliases to direct the root e-mails to where ever you want them to go to. * run 'make' in /etc/mail to rebuild the aliases.db file and copy the default sendmail configuration to `hostname`.mc etc. (`hostname` there means whatever the hostname command outputs on your machine.) * edit `hostname`.mc and change the line that says: dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') Take out the 'dnl' part and change your.isp.mail.server to the hostname of your ISP's mail server. For security reasons (ie. to stop people being able to trivially find out the login and password details) you should also change this line at the end of the file from: define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') to define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy,goaway') Then run: make all install restart to generate the .cf files, move them into place and restart the running sendmail. * edit /etc/mail/access to add the login details for your ISP's mail server. Look for the section titled Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client in the file /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README for details. In short if all you have is a username and password then add a line like: AuthInfo:your.isp.mail.server U:user P:password Then type 'make' one last time. That's all really, apart from testing. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGqP/w8Mjk52CukIwRCN4DAJwOSF8eqb4WGQytrKu7kcCq9q5iSQCfRAT2 oI9pogQUepmf5yzQJMegrPk= =bj1y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail question
Eric Crist wrote: On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:54 AMJul 26, 2007, Dylan Smith wrote: I am currently on the last stages of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE File and Network Application Server. One of my last tasks is to simple forward all mail from root out through my isp's SMTP(requires authentication) server and to an email account i have elsewhere. That is to say i have no purpose for a mail server other than to handle mail from things like periodic and to move that mail elsewhere. Can this be easily accomplished? If so are there any guides/how-to's? I have done a search around my usual BSD sites and books and found nothing that is easily modified to my circumstances. Thanks, Dylan. It can be done, but it's a PITA with Sendmail. Look into /usr/ports/mail/ssmtp. We use it on our systems here where we need to simply get root's email off the box. Simple configuration file, works well. Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for that little suggestion. Would this mean that i could just disable sendmail totally(sendmail_enable=none)? Dylan. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail question
On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:54 AMJul 26, 2007, Dylan Smith wrote: I am currently on the last stages of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2- STABLE File and Network Application Server. One of my last tasks is to simple forward all mail from root out through my isp's SMTP (requires authentication) server and to an email account i have elsewhere. That is to say i have no purpose for a mail server other than to handle mail from things like periodic and to move that mail elsewhere. Can this be easily accomplished? If so are there any guides/how- to's? I have done a search around my usual BSD sites and books and found nothing that is easily modified to my circumstances. Thanks, Dylan. It can be done, but it's a PITA with Sendmail. Look into /usr/ports/ mail/ssmtp. We use it on our systems here where we need to simply get root's email off the box. Simple configuration file, works well. Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sendmail question
Hi Dylan, You should just be able to modify /etc/aliases and put in the e-mail alias for root. root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then run the 'newaliases' program and it should be all good. You may have to allow the IP of the box to be relayed through your mail server. But if it is on the ISP's network they usually allow it by default. Cheers, Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dylan Smith Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 7:54 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail question I am currently on the last stages of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE File and Network Application Server. One of my last tasks is to simple forward all mail from root out through my isp's SMTP(requires authentication) server and to an email account i have elsewhere. That is to say i have no purpose for a mail server other than to handle mail from things like periodic and to move that mail elsewhere. Can this be easily accomplished? If so are there any guides/how-to's? I have done a search around my usual BSD sites and books and found nothing that is easily modified to my circumstances. Thanks, Dylan. ___ 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 question
On 7/26/07, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dylan Smith wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:54 AMJul 26, 2007, Dylan Smith wrote: I am currently on the last stages of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE File and Network Application Server. One of my last tasks is to simple forward all mail from root out through my isp's SMTP(requires authentication) server and to an email account i have elsewhere. That is to say i have no purpose for a mail server other than to handle mail from things like periodic and to move that mail elsewhere. Can this be easily accomplished? If so are there any guides/how-to's? I have done a search around my usual BSD sites and books and found nothing that is easily modified to my circumstances. It can be done, but it's a PITA with Sendmail. Look into /usr/ports/mail/ssmtp. We use it on our systems here where we need to simply get root's email off the box. Simple configuration file, works well. Thanks for that little suggestion. Would this mean that i could just disable sendmail totally(sendmail_enable=none)? Hmmm... no one seems to have cottoned onto the 'requires authentication' statement in the original message. As far as I can tell, ssmtp only allows authentication via the use of cryptographic certificates -- which is probably the most secure way of doing authentication but also tends not to be supported on many mail systems. a fairly simple mail client that supports authentication: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user
Greg Groth wrote: Hmm I guess that sould be the problem then: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.eu.org Escape character is '^]'. 220 Fstaals.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3/8.13.3; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:31:30 +0200 (CE ST) EHLO localhost 250-Fstaals.net Hello localhost.eu.org [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP I compiled sendmail with the following options: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/make.conf # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 # Adding to enable alternate port (smtps) for sendmail... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL # added by use.perl 2006-03-02 22:35:07 PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 What should I do fix this ? Appart from those lines in /etc/make.conf I didn't change anything regarding to the build of sendmail Regards, Need more info. How did you recompile Sendmail? For instance, I did a minimal install, updated my ports, installed cvsup-without-gui fastest-cvsup, cvsupped my sources, ran a buildworld to get the base system up to date, then added the following to make.conf: snip Example In the instances I had a screwup in which I could not resolve, I've made the following bonehead moves: 1. Ran make installworld without dropping to single-user mode 2. cvsupped to the wrong source tree due to my ignorance of the tags in the cvsup file. My latest misadventures with getting PLAIN LOGIN working were on systems where I did everything correctly, but installed a number of ports prior to messing with the MTA. This included Apache, PHP, MySQL, Squirrelmail, XOrg, KDE-lite, and whatever dependencies were needed. The same issue occured with trying to get PLAIN AUTH working with Postfix, and on a second box with Sendmail. I ended up reinstalling, and focused on getting the MTA and SASL2 working immediately after getting the system up to date, and had no issues. IMHO, worry about getting PLAIN LOGIN working before messing with compiling SSL support into Sendmail. In my experience, configuring SSL can be a pain, making sure everything is where it's supposed to be. Best regards, Greg Groth Basically it would be the following: Installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, minimal install ; manually added the extra stuff I wanted. Installed a lot of the usual stuff: Apache, php, smnmpd. Then some time ago I decided I also wanted to run a mailserver so Installed imap-uw and cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd. Added: # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 # Adding to enable alternate port (smtps) for sendmail... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL to /etc/make.conf rebuild world and updated to 5.4-STABLE, manually rebuild sendmail : cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail make clean make depend make make install Made SSL certificates: mkdir /etc/mail/certs cd /etc/mail/certs openssl dsaparam 1024 -out dsa1024.pem openssl req -x509 -nodes -newkey dsa:dsa1024.pem -out mycert.pem -keyout mykey.pem rm dsa1024.pem chmod -R 600 /etc/mail/certs/* Checked if 'pwcheck_method: saslauthd' was in my /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf then: cd /etc/mail/ make all added the following to HOSTNAME.mc : define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/mail/certs')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR')dnl define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR/mycert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/mycert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/mykey.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR/mycert.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR/mykey.pem')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl ran a : make all install restart Then basically my mailserver thingy stopped for a while ( not enough time etc ) without realy finishing it up. When I continued last week I tested what worked; I found out I could send mail as root ( with mail e-mail-address ) but not as user. I decided I also wanted spamassasin and that it would probably be best if I did that immediately so I Installed spamassasin ( spamass-milter ) and made sure both spamassasin and spamd started at boot. Manually started both daemons. Then added the following to /etc/mail/HOSTNAME.mc INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m') define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `spamassassin') I also fixed a syntax error in my HOSTNAME.mc file ( something went wrong with the ` ) then ran a make all install restart /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart tested if sasl was working ( which worked fine ) : testsaslauthd -u user -p password At this point I was able to send mail from localhost ( by using mail
Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user
Frank Staals wrote: I tried to setup my own mail and smtp-server with help from this webpage: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html . I sucessfully installed imap-uw and I got it up successfully. Allthough the stmp-part doesn't work for 100% yet: I can send mail as root : snip Thanks in advance Jonathan Horne wrote: greetings frank, this reply is out of the list. you need to at a minimum take a look at the file /etc/mail/access, or, as an even better alternative, consider installing/configuring sasl2-saslauthd and have people who send thru authenticate via plain. if you would like to see an article i wrote on this, if you follow it line by line, you should have no problems getting it to work. http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org/index.php/Deploying_a_FreeBSD_Server#Configuring_Mail_Services if i can be of any assistance with my article, feel free to drop me a line. i can be reached via this email address, or on aim/yahoo as LoudRedZ71. cheers and good luck, jonathan On Friday 04 August 2006 17:08, you wrote: I tried to setup my own mail and smtp-server with help from this snip I've gotten a bit further this weekend but I'm not 'there' yet. I could sucessfully send a e-mail by using 'mail' as normal user at my server. Allthough when I tried to send an e-mail from my laptop with my server as smtp server it kept prompting for my password and this is what was displayed in /var/log/maillog : Aug 5 11:40:36 FStaals sm-mta[101]: k759eEva000101: Riza.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 When I googled if I could find a solution I came to this page : http://www.issociate.de/board/post/246978/did_not_issue_MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN_during_connection_to_MTA.html The solution oppered there was to add ' mech_list: login plain' to /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf . So I did and it kind of worked, allthough now I can only send e-mail to other users at my server ( for example root ), when I try to mail to an external adress my log 'says' my message is rejected: Aug 5 13:10:30 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1= [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=Riza.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5], reject=550 5.7.1 fr [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied Aug 5 13:10:34 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: lost input channel from Ri za.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5] to IPv4 after rcpt Aug 5 13:10:34 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=373, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=Riza.FStaals.LAN [1 92.168.2.5] I'm not sure what I have to do to get working correctly and I was hoping someone could give me some hints what I'm doing wrong. Also I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add the 'mech_list: login plain' to sasl2's Sendmail.conf ? Last but not least : I want sendmail to use SSL and listen to port 465. sockstat shows It isn't listening to that port, but I think it should, does anyone happen to know what it is I'm doing wrong at that point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sockstat -4 | grep sendmail root sendmail 1410 3 tcp4 *:25 *:* root sendmail 1410 5 tcp4 *:587 *:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/mail/FStaals.net.cf | grep smtps O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s Many thanks, -- -Frank Staals -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user
Make sure you have the following files in /etc/mail setup: local-host-names domaintable mailertable These last two need a database file too which is make by: /usr/sbin/makemap hash domaintable domaintable /usr/sbin/makemap hash mailertable mailertable -Derek At 12:41 PM 8/7/2006, Frank Staals wrote: Frank Staals wrote: I tried to setup my own mail and smtp-server with help from this webpage: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html . I sucessfully installed imap-uw and I got it up successfully. Allthough the stmp-part doesn't work for 100% yet: I can send mail as root : snip Thanks in advance Jonathan Horne wrote: greetings frank, this reply is out of the list. you need to at a minimum take a look at the file /etc/mail/access, or, as an even better alternative, consider installing/configuring sasl2-saslauthd and have people who send thru authenticate via plain. if you would like to see an article i wrote on this, if you follow it line by line, you should have no problems getting it to work. http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org/index.php/Deploying_a_FreeBSD_Server#Configuring_Mail_Services if i can be of any assistance with my article, feel free to drop me a line. i can be reached via this email address, or on aim/yahoo as LoudRedZ71. cheers and good luck, jonathan On Friday 04 August 2006 17:08, you wrote: I tried to setup my own mail and smtp-server with help from this snip I've gotten a bit further this weekend but I'm not 'there' yet. I could sucessfully send a e-mail by using 'mail' as normal user at my server. Allthough when I tried to send an e-mail from my laptop with my server as smtp server it kept prompting for my password and this is what was displayed in /var/log/maillog : Aug 5 11:40:36 FStaals sm-mta[101]: k759eEva000101: Riza.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 When I googled if I could find a solution I came to this page : http://www.issociate.de/board/post/246978/did_not_issue_MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN_during_connection_to_MTA.html The solution oppered there was to add ' mech_list: login plain' to /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf . So I did and it kind of worked, allthough now I can only send e-mail to other users at my server ( for example root ), when I try to mail to an external adress my log 'says' my message is rejected: Aug 5 13:10:30 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1= [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=Riza.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5], reject=550 5.7.1 fr [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied Aug 5 13:10:34 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: lost input channel from Ri za.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5] to IPv4 after rcpt Aug 5 13:10:34 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=373, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=Riza.FStaals.LAN [1 92.168.2.5] I'm not sure what I have to do to get working correctly and I was hoping someone could give me some hints what I'm doing wrong. Also I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add the 'mech_list: login plain' to sasl2's Sendmail.conf ? Last but not least : I want sendmail to use SSL and listen to port 465. sockstat shows It isn't listening to that port, but I think it should, does anyone happen to know what it is I'm doing wrong at that point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sockstat -4 | grep sendmail root sendmail 1410 3 tcp4 *:25 *:* root sendmail 1410 5 tcp4 *:587 *:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/mail/FStaals.net.cf | grep smtps O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s Many thanks, -- -Frank Staals -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user
I've gotten a bit further this weekend but I'm not 'there' yet. I could sucessfully send a e-mail by using 'mail' as normal user at my server. Allthough when I tried to send an e-mail from my laptop with my server as smtp server it kept prompting for my password and this is what was displayed in /var/log/maillog : Aug 5 11:40:36 FStaals sm-mta[101]: k759eEva000101: Riza.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 When I googled if I could find a solution I came to this page : http://www.issociate.de/board/post/246978/did_not_issue_MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN_during_connection_to_MTA.html The solution oppered there was to add ' mech_list: login plain' to /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf . So I did and it kind of worked, allthough now I can only send e-mail to other users at my server ( for example root ), when I try to mail to an external adress my log 'says' my message is rejected: Aug 5 13:10:30 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1= [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=Riza.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5], reject=550 5.7.1 fr [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied Aug 5 13:10:34 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: lost input channel from Ri za.FStaals.LAN [192.168.2.5] to IPv4 after rcpt Aug 5 13:10:34 FStaals sm-mta[1495]: k75BATko001495: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=373, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=Riza.FStaals.LAN [1 92.168.2.5] I'm not sure what I have to do to get working correctly and I was hoping someone could give me some hints what I'm doing wrong. Also I'm not sure if it's a good idea to add the 'mech_list: login plain' to sasl2's Sendmail.conf ? Last but not least : I want sendmail to use SSL and listen to port 465. sockstat shows It isn't listening to that port, but I think it should, does anyone happen to know what it is I'm doing wrong at that point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sockstat -4 | grep sendmail root sendmail 1410 3 tcp4 *:25 *:* root sendmail 1410 5 tcp4 *:587 *:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/mail/FStaals.net.cf | grep smtps O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s Many thanks, Telnet to port 25 on the mail server. Once connected, issue an EHLO command and look for the AUTH line - for example: # telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost.servername.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.servername.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:11:37 -0500 (CDT) EHLO localhost 250-mail.servername.com Hello localhost.servername.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP If you don't see PLAIN LOGIN, you have a problem in how Sendmail was compiled. As far as getting SSL up and running, I had better luck using stunnel instead of compiling SSL into each service. With one certificate to manage, I now have SSL encryption on IMAP, POP3, SMTP HTTP. Of course the sites that are being protected are for internal use at our company, so no one complains that we're using a self-signed certificate and the names don't match, YMMV. If Sendmail does return the right AUTH parameters, and you're still having issues, test saslauthd. Make sure you have the following in Sendmail.conf: pwcheck_method: saslauthd I have not needed to add 'mech_list: login plain' to Sendmail.conf to get this to work. Make sure saslauthd is running. If not then: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/./saslauthd start test the authentication: # /usr/local/sbin/testsaslauthd -u username -p password 0: OK Success. If you get an error with saslauthd at this point, the problem is there. If this works OK, but you're not getting the right AUTH response during your telnet connection, your problem is probably how Sendmail was compiled. HTH. If all seems to be in order, and you're still having issues, what other ports do you have on the machine? I've run into problems the same as yours with both Postfix and Sendmail after installing quite a few other ports. During my last rebuild, I installed Postfix and sasl2 out of the gate, and have had no issues. I think in my case, something else I installed before the MTA SASL2 screwed something up, but I could not determine where the fault was and ended up reinstalling. Best regards, Greg Groth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user
Greg Groth wrote: I've gotten a bit further this weekend but I'm not 'there' yet. I could sucessfully send a e-mail by using 'mail' as normal user at my server. Allthough when I tried to send an e-mail from my laptop with my server as smtp server it kept prompting for my password and this is what was displayed in /var/log/maillog : snip Many thanks, Telnet to port 25 on the mail server. Once connected, issue an EHLO command and look for the AUTH line - for example: # telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost.servername.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.servername.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4/8.13.4; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:11:37 -0500 (CDT) EHLO localhost 250-mail.servername.com Hello localhost.servername.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP If you don't see PLAIN LOGIN, you have a problem in how Sendmail was compiled. Hmm I guess that sould be the problem then: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.eu.org Escape character is '^]'. 220 Fstaals.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3/8.13.3; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:31:30 +0200 (CE ST) EHLO localhost 250-Fstaals.net Hello localhost.eu.org [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP I compiled sendmail with the following options: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/make.conf # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 # Adding to enable alternate port (smtps) for sendmail... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL # added by use.perl 2006-03-02 22:35:07 PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 What should I do fix this ? Appart from those lines in /etc/make.conf I didn't change anything regarding to the build of sendmail Regards, -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user
Hmm I guess that sould be the problem then: [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.eu.org Escape character is '^]'. 220 Fstaals.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3/8.13.3; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:31:30 +0200 (CE ST) EHLO localhost 250-Fstaals.net Hello localhost.eu.org [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP I compiled sendmail with the following options: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/make.conf # SASL (cyrus-sasl v2) sendmail build flags... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 # Adding to enable alternate port (smtps) for sendmail... SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL # added by use.perl 2006-03-02 22:35:07 PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 What should I do fix this ? Appart from those lines in /etc/make.conf I didn't change anything regarding to the build of sendmail Regards, Need more info. How did you recompile Sendmail? For instance, I did a minimal install, updated my ports, installed cvsup-without-gui fastest-cvsup, cvsupped my sources, ran a buildworld to get the base system up to date, then added the following to make.conf: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 installed sasl2 by compiling from the ports then I recompiled Sendmail as follows: cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail make clean make obj make depend make make install Once that was done, I went into /etc/mail and added the following to freebsd.mc define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl After saving the file, I ran the following in /etc/mail: make all make install make restart After which a telnet session showed the correct AUTH paramenters. In the instances I had a screwup in which I could not resolve, I've made the following bonehead moves: 1. Ran make installworld without dropping to single-user mode 2. cvsupped to the wrong source tree due to my ignorance of the tags in the cvsup file. My latest misadventures with getting PLAIN LOGIN working were on systems where I did everything correctly, but installed a number of ports prior to messing with the MTA. This included Apache, PHP, MySQL, Squirrelmail, XOrg, KDE-lite, and whatever dependencies were needed. The same issue occured with trying to get PLAIN AUTH working with Postfix, and on a second box with Sendmail. I ended up reinstalling, and focused on getting the MTA and SASL2 working immediately after getting the system up to date, and had no issues. IMHO, worry about getting PLAIN LOGIN working before messing with compiling SSL support into Sendmail. In my experience, configuring SSL can be a pain, making sure everything is where it's supposed to be. Best regards, Greg Groth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user
Frank Staals wrote: $ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test usertest . EOT $ /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 0: cannot open: Permission denied Yes -- it's to do with the separation of powers between sendmail-MSP (Mail Submission Program) and sendmail-MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Invoking /usr/sbin/sendmail from the command line, or via one of the standard Unix command line mail clients connects you with the MSP instance. That runs with your UID, but is setgid to 'smmsp'. /etc/mail/submit.cf is the configuration file for that sendmail instance. Double check the file system ownership and permissions on /etc/mail and /etc/mail/submit.cf -- they should be as follows: happy-idiot-talk:/etc/mail:% ls -ld /etc/mail /etc/mail/submit.cf drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Aug 4 12:04 /etc/mail/ -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 40406 Aug 4 12:04 /etc/mail/submit.cf Note: using /etc/mail/Makefile to rebuild any of sendmail's tables or configuration files means that all files should be installed with the correct permissions. There's instructions in the comments at the beginning of the Makefile Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: sendmail question on gateway install
steve lasiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a follow up to an issue I still have concerning my FreeBSD 5.4 gateway. I've done a basic install and have disabled inetd and sendmail. My mail server is behind my gateway. I can send mail out but the gateway is blocking incoming request on port 25. I have the ipf rules and ipnat rules in place but the gateway never allows it through. I can telnet to the 192.x.x.1 address behind the gateway fine so I know my postfix is up and running. I can do a port scan via the internet and see that 25 is opened but when I try to telnet into the public ip on 25 I never get in and get a connection refused. When I check with tcpdump -vnt port 25 and run the web port scan I see it catching the packets. But when I run the tcpdump and try to telnet in on 25 it never reaches it. There is also output in my maillog even though sendmail is disabled via rc.conf. Can anyone give me a heads up on what configuration files need modifying to open this up? It sounds obvious that your firewall rules are *not* in place to allow SMTP through. You didn't show them. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail question on gateway install
Lowell, Since I sent this I've found out that the problem lies with the MX record at the site I registered with. It was corrupted and they needed to manually reset it. The other problem of not getting in on port 25 was due to my lack of knowledge concerning my new setup of my gateway and my LAN and that I can't get to my public IP from withing my LAN. When I telneted in from another PC outside the LAN I was able to pass through successfully. I appreciate the input. Steve L --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: steve lasiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a follow up to an issue I still have concerning my FreeBSD 5.4 gateway. I've done a basic install and have disabled inetd and sendmail. My mail server is behind my gateway. I can send mail out but the gateway is blocking incoming request on port 25. I have the ipf rules and ipnat rules in place but the gateway never allows it through. I can telnet to the 192.x.x.1 address behind the gateway fine so I know my postfix is up and running. I can do a port scan via the internet and see that 25 is opened but when I try to telnet into the public ip on 25 I never get in and get a connection refused. When I check with tcpdump -vnt port 25 and run the web port scan I see it catching the packets. But when I run the tcpdump and try to telnet in on 25 it never reaches it. There is also output in my maillog even though sendmail is disabled via rc.conf. Can anyone give me a heads up on what configuration files need modifying to open this up? It sounds obvious that your firewall rules are *not* in place to allow SMTP through. You didn't show them. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.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 question
Ronnie Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am building a central syslog server. I am seeing sendmail related items in the maillog file, even though I have sendmail_enable=NONE in my /etc/rc.conf file. Is there a way to turn off any resemblance of an MTA on a FreeBSD system? Or, is there a way to turn on a localhost MTA but not have it actively listen on a port? (in this case tcp 587) sendmail_enable=NONE should disable it totally. sendmail_enable=NO should allow local submission only. You could also install something like ssmtp to replace sendmail. What kind of log messages are you getting? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail question
Bill, Thanks for the response. Here is the last entry in the maillog file: Sep 29 03:01:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sendmail[1204]: i8T81lo5001204: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31632, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] This makes sense that the log says what it does since I have sendmail_enable=NONE. What I am asking is if there is a way to not have this file at all since there is no need to send amy mail of any kind from this server. Make sense? Thanks again for any and all help. Ron Clark --- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronnie Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am building a central syslog server. I am seeing sendmail related items in the maillog file, even though I have sendmail_enable=NONE in my /etc/rc.conf file. Is there a way to turn off any resemblance of an MTA on a FreeBSD system? Or, is there a way to turn on a localhost MTA but not have it actively listen on a port? (in this case tcp 587) sendmail_enable=NONE should disable it totally. sendmail_enable=NO should allow local submission only. You could also install something like ssmtp to replace sendmail. What kind of log messages are you getting? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail question
Ronnie Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Thanks for the response. Here is the last entry in the maillog file: Sep 29 03:01:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sendmail[1204]: i8T81lo5001204: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31632, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] This makes sense that the log says what it does since I have sendmail_enable=NONE. What I am asking is if there is a way to not have this file at all since there is no need to send amy mail of any kind from this server. Make sense? Not really. A lot of stuff in FreeBSD uses email for notifications and the like. A few examples are cron (which will email the output of cron jobs) and periodic. If you want to disable _all_ mail delivery, you'll need to track down all of these utilities and either a) prevent them from running or b) arrange for notifications from them to be sent via some other means. I don't know that a comprehensive list of these applications has ever been compiled, but I think disabling them and mail delivery is A Bad Idea (tm) because you're pretending your smarter than 30 years of Unix system administrators' combined experience. The Right Thing To Do (tm) is to set sendmail_enable=NONE (or replace sendmail with ssmtp) and configure the root account to forward to your email account so you can properly receive these informative emails. If you're not familiar with sendmail or uncomfortable with it doing anything, check out the handbook page on replacing it with ssmtp: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html HTH. --- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronnie Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am building a central syslog server. I am seeing sendmail related items in the maillog file, even though I have sendmail_enable=NONE in my /etc/rc.conf file. Is there a way to turn off any resemblance of an MTA on a FreeBSD system? Or, is there a way to turn on a localhost MTA but not have it actively listen on a port? (in this case tcp 587) sendmail_enable=NONE should disable it totally. sendmail_enable=NO should allow local submission only. You could also install something like ssmtp to replace sendmail. What kind of log messages are you getting? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail question
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:53:51 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronnie Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Thanks for the response. Here is the last entry in the maillog file: Sep 29 03:01:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sendmail[1204]: i8T81lo5001204: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31632, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] This makes sense that the log says what it does since I have sendmail_enable=NONE. What I am asking is if there is a way to not have this file at all since there is no need to send amy mail of any kind from this server. Make sense? Not really. A lot of stuff in FreeBSD uses email for notifications and the like. A few examples are cron (which will email the output of cron jobs) and periodic. If you want to disable _all_ mail delivery, you'll need to track down all of these utilities and either a) prevent them from running or b) arrange for notifications from them to be sent via some other means. hello ron, while this may not catch everything, it is a good and reasonable (imho) start. 1) add the following lines to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output=/var/log/daily.log weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log daily_status_security_output=/var/log/security.log 2) be sure that these logs exist. if they don't, 'touch' them. 3) the following in rc.conf: sendmail_enable=NONE syslogd_enable=YES syslogd_flags=-ss# read the man page, if you want details inetd_enable=NO # - only if you're not running any inet services 4) reboot or shutdown. upon restart, examine 'netstat -n | grep -i list' for output. if get any output, it is for services that are 'listening'. deal with those, as you see fit. 5) if you ever need to send mail from this host, use one of the clients which have their own MTA's integrated (ex. sylpheed). while such CLI clients may exist, i am only aware of the gui clients. while it doesn't everything (firewalls in particular), this is a very good article, if you're looking to start locking down this machine: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/FreeBSD_Basics.html hth. cheers, epi I don't know that a comprehensive list of these applications has ever been compiled, but I think disabling them and mail delivery is A Bad Idea (tm) because you're pretending your smarter than 30 years of Unix system administrators' combined experience. The Right Thing To Do (tm) is to set sendmail_enable=NONE (or replace sendmail with ssmtp) and configure the root account to forward to your email account so you can properly receive these informative emails. If you're not familiar with sendmail or uncomfortable with it doing anything, check out the handbook page on replacing it with ssmtp: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html HTH. --- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronnie Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am building a central syslog server. I am seeing sendmail related items in the maillog file, even though I have sendmail_enable=NONE in my /etc/rc.conf file. Is there a way to turn off any resemblance of an MTA on a FreeBSD system? Or, is there a way to turn on a localhost MTA but not have it actively listen on a port? (in this case tcp 587) sendmail_enable=NONE should disable it totally. sendmail_enable=NO should allow local submission only. You could also install something like ssmtp to replace sendmail. What kind of log messages are you getting? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [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]
Re: sendmail question
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:22:15PM +1030, Alex Wilkinson wrote: Howdy all, I have yet another sendmail issue. This command will send mail fine ie no errors whatsoever and the mail arrives masquared: $ /usr/bin/mail -s testing [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I Bcc or Cc recipients I get this error: $ /usr/bin/mail -s testing [EMAIL PROTECTED] -c [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=200, want=25) can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser. What is the best way of getting around this problem specific to FreeBSD -CURRENT ? man mail gives: mail [-EiInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... These special argument must go before the normal ones. This is true for all command in Unix. You have to place the -c argument before to-addr. For mail argument afther the to-addr are sendmail argument. So your -c didn't command to cc this also to person x. -- 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 question
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:37AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: man mail gives: mail [-EiInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... These special argument must go before the normal ones. This is true for all command in Unix. You have to place the -c argument before to-addr. For mail argument afther the to-addr are sendmail argument. So your -c didn't command to cc this also to person x. Yes you're exactly right! Thanks ! All is working now. - aW ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail question
Thanks for the reply, I have checked the DNS part by resolving my hostname with the entries listed in /etc/resolv.conf. The name servers are working fine. thanks. On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Q wrote: It might be DNS related. Have you checked the log files to see if it is trying to resolve a hostname or MX record for the RCPT domain? Seeya...Q On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:14, Mail Monitor wrote: Hi, I'm running sendmail on FreeBSD 4.7 and have a problem with sendmail. Even though the sendmail is running, the mails are not coming into the server. I tried sending a mail from command line using /usr/sbin/sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] The output of this command hangs just before DATA i.e EHLO, MAIL from are supported. But i donot get Recipient ok it takes 10 min to complete the mail delivery and hangs after RCPT To for 10 min. Any clue why it happens? Thanks ___ [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] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail question
It might be DNS related. Have you checked the log files to see if it is trying to resolve a hostname or MX record for the RCPT domain? Seeya...Q On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:14, Mail Monitor wrote: Hi, I'm running sendmail on FreeBSD 4.7 and have a problem with sendmail. Even though the sendmail is running, the mails are not coming into the server. I tried sending a mail from command line using /usr/sbin/sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] The output of this command hangs just before DATA i.e EHLO, MAIL from are supported. But i donot get Recipient ok it takes 10 min to complete the mail delivery and hangs after RCPT To for 10 min. Any clue why it happens? Thanks ___ [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]
Re: sendmail question
I get a startup message like this: Mar 11 03:02:52 lorax sm-mta[22980]: h2B92pBL022966: SYSERR(root): x74-47.forestry.umn.edu. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Mar 11 03:02:52 lorax sm-mta[22985]: h2B92qBL022981: SYSERR(root): x74-47.forestry.umn.edu. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Mar 11 10:15:49 lorax su: kwythers to root on /dev/ttyp0 According to what I've read in the sendmail FAQ, it looks like I need to add my local hostname to /etc/mail/local-host-names. Create /etc/mail/local-hostnames and simply add your domain name to it, then HUP sendmail. What's happening is that your smtp server receives the mail, doesn't know it should keep it, and sends it out to the mx for your domain. If that box is the MX for the domain, this will cause an infinite loop, as the server will never keep the message for final delivery. Hope this helps. Steve However my system does not seems to have a local-host-names file. Why wasn't this file created when I did a standard cd install? Is this something I need to add manually? Or am I completely on the wrong track here? thanks -- Kirk R. Wythers Department of Forest Resources Tel: 612.625.2261 University of Minnesota Fax: 612.625.521 1530 Cleveland Ave. N Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saint Paul, MN 55108 USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sendmail Question
You are on the right track. Sendmail may have used sendmail.cw which was the predecesor of local- host-names. Check wich file it is looking for by searching through sendmail.cf Then create whatever file it is and add the name of the host that is giving you the dreaded loops-back error. No mail can be recieved for that host on this machine until the name has been added to that file. -Grant === Mail Service Provided by The Net Now and Mailreader === To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
