RE: sendmail troubles

[Will Phipps]

Title: Message

Steve,

 

Thanks for the help.  That solved my problem with outgoing mail by adding "192.168.1           RELAY" in the /etc/mail/access file.  However, I still cannot receive incoming mail.  I do not have an /etc/mail/relay-domains file on my server.  Should I create this file?  RH 8.0 did not install this file for me.  Is this the config file that sendmail uses to accept incoming mail?  Do I need to put the dns of my DSL provider in this config file?

 

 

Wayne, I am accessing my mail server from Outlook on a seperate windows machine on my LAN.  However, I don't think that my problem has anything to do with the client.  I think Steve is about to solve our problem.  Hopefully.

 

Will P.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Cowles, Steve
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:40 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: sendmail troubles

See below

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sendmail troubles

I seem to have solved my imap problems by reinstalling all of the mail server rpm options with RH 8.0.  Now I am having a problem with sendmail.  I have commented out the line

 

"DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')"

 

from the sendmail.cm file and run the m4 macro to create the new sendmail.cf file and restarted sendmail.  But I cannot send or recieve mail internally or externally with the mail client.  I have created a normal user account under and I am trying to send mail to and from this user.  Is there anything else I need to do to configure this?

 

This is the message I get when trying to send to my server from an external account:

 

***************start

Reporting-MTA: dns;hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:27:08 -0800

 

Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied
***************end 

 

Have you configured sendmail to accept e-mail for your domain after you reinstalled? Specifically, the /etc/mail/relay-domains file.

 

This is the message I get when I try to send outgoing mail from a client:

 

*******************start

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: test outgoing

Sent: 11/20/2002 9:48 PM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'externaluser@msn.com' on 11/20/2002 9:48 PM

550 5.7.1 externaluser@msn.com... Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed [192.168.1.1]

*******************end 

 

The above additions to relay-domains should fix this problem also. You can also place your network address in /etc/mail/access to allow your mail clients to relay off of this server.

 

Steve Cowles

 

Any Ideas?  Does sendmail require you to authenticate for outgoing mail?

 

Thanks again,

Will P.