I'm getting to the final stages of configuring a Gentoo system for myself. I'm now configuring mail, based on what I currently have working with my RH7.2 system.
I'm just hoping someone can explain what some log messages mean, since I appreciate that there's a wide range of errors I could be making. (sendmail.mc, submit.cf, access, genericstable, aliases, reolv.conf, host.conf, spamassassin/local.cf, ...) I use fetchmail to grab mail from my ISP, and sendmail to deliver mail (but procmail for local delivery). I gather that sendmail's validation checks to reduce spam abuse have become more stringent. Anyway, I now have it set up well enough to deliver mail locally from local machines on my 192.168.1 network, and I can now send email to external addresses from local machines. But I can't seem to receive mail from external machines. After fetchmail has received mail, it doesn't get delivered. I see errors like this in /var/log/messages: Jan 17 22:56:14 posh sm-mta[16557]: i0HBuE2p016557: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist Jan 17 22:56:14 posh sm-mta[16557]: i0HBuE2p016557: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=3150, class=0, nrcpts=0, bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] Jan 17 22:57:25 posh sm-mta[16559]: i0HBvP2p016559: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist Jan 17 22:57:25 posh sm-mta[16559]: i0HBvP2p016559: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=3082, class=0, nrcpts=0, bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] As soon as I realised that (a minute or so), I shut down fetchmail. I didn't seem to lose the mail mentioned in the log file - it seemed to come through okay when next I rebooted RH. I'm just trying to understand what the log messages are saying, since I'm no sendmail expert (not a even mail expert). I'm doing Google searches and reading up the resulting threads, which mostly seem to relate to anti-spam measures. But I think I'm lacking a basic understanding of what the log messages mean. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
