Another thing you can try is to telnet directly to the SMTP port and pretend you are a remote client. Simply issuing the command:
telnet <hostname> 25 should do the trick. If sendmail is listening you should get the SMTP greeting message. If not, you either have a local configuration problem and/or network problem (assuming you are telneting from another machine). If you get this far, you can manually issue the SMTP HELO, MAIL FROM, and RCPT TO commands (with appropriate data) to see how it responds. Chances are that if something is wrong, it will tell you about it during the smtp session. Best Regards, Tim Kehres International Messaging Associates http://www.ima.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Sparks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:29 AM Subject: Re: SMTP trouble > --- Michael Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I recently ran up2date on my RH7.1 and RH7.3 server. I just found > > out that I cannot send mail out via smtp from my windoz mail program. > > I have also noticed that my server is refusing all mail. For example: > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection refused by flb.fortleboeuf.net. > > Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours > > Will keep trying until message is 5 days old > > > > I have used chkconfig and webmin to check settings. I have also looked > > in my inetd.conf file. I may be missing something but I can't see the > > problem. > > > > > > I checked my /etc/mail/access file and it is still the one from before > > the update. Relaying is permitted for my network. > > > > I went into /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and commentd out > > "DAEMON_OPTIONS('Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')" > > > > I then ran "m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf" as it states > > in the beginning of this file. > > > > I got the message "/etc/mail/sendmail.mc:8: m4: Cannot open > > /usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4: No such file or directory". > > > > I did notice that sendmail.cf had the line > > "include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')" in the beginning. So do > > I need to find cf.m4 on my system, for this to work. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Well, first, I'd go back to basics. Check > ps -aux | egrep sendmail > and see if sendmail is listening. > > Also try > netstat -a > to see if it's listening on smtp. If you don't see something like > tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN > then the sendmail process isn't on at all. > > I'm also confused. You're showing us a sendmail log entry; is that > from the server you're having problems with or is that from another > email server that's sending to the server you're having problems with? > > Regarding m4 creation, find out where your source is. What I have > found handy is the following definitions whenever I have wanted to > create an cf file from an m4 file: > > CFDIR=$HOME/install/sendmail-8.11.6/cf/ > sendmailsrc=/var/usr/local/src/sendmail-8.11.6 > alias m4gen="m4 -D_CF_DIR_=${CFDIR} ${CFDIR}/m4/cf.m4" > > I then use m4gen to create my mc file. Change your $CFDIR definition, > and optionally your $sendmailsrc definition (which is just a handy > definition I use to "cd" to that directory; it's optional). > > m4gen will create your cf file in ${CFDIR}/m4/ and base its contents > on ${CFDIR}/m4/cf.m4". > > I based all this on a README file placed in sendmail source's ./cf > directory. > === Al > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
