Re: Sendmail question

2009-06-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, kj wrote: I should know this but I'm drawing a blank, and google is only finding the things I'm not looking for. Man, I know the feeling How do I get sendmail to forget the MX lookups it's done for mail that are already in the queue, and check them again? I have a clien

Sendmail question

2009-06-16 Thread kj
I should know this but I'm drawing a blank, and google is only finding the things I'm not looking for. How do I get sendmail to forget the MX lookups it's done for mail that are already in the queue, and check them again? I have a client who screwed up with their DNS, so there's a host of mai

Re: sendmail question

2003-11-17 Thread Ken Gilmour
Hi Vivek Replying to the message sent by Vivek Kumar  on Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:22:42 -0500, received at 10:18:49 on 17/11/2003. Vivek Kumar wrote: >Hi , > >All the incoming mails comes to Debian Linux box and get s forwarded to >Exchange server for distribution. IF the MS exchange server is down fo

Re: sendmail question

2003-11-14 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
By default sendmail should try to redeliver every 4 hours for up to 5 days... After that it should start sending back undeliverable messages to the sender... This of course is configurable but is pretty much recommended defaults... I've not found it to be a problem for any of the many sendm

sendmail question

2003-11-14 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi , All the incoming mails comes to Debian Linux box and get s forwarded to Exchange server for distribution. IF the MS exchange server is down for few hours then what happens to the mail ?? If Linux box keeps it then how long it can keep the mails ?? Will there be any disk space issue for the in

sendmail Question-Important

2003-11-12 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi , All the incoming mails comes to Debian Linux box and get s forwarded to Exchange server for distribution. IF the MS exchange server is down for few hours then what happens to the mail ?? If Linux box keeps it then how long it can keep the mails ?? Will there be any disk space issue for the in

Sendmail question

2003-06-16 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi there, I have some sendmail issue. Here is the scenario. All the mails which comes to us goes to sonicwall (firewall) and from there its port forwarded to Linux box and from there it goes to the Windows MS Exchange server and then is distributed to the users. The question i have is does the linu

[offtopic] Sendmail question

2002-09-11 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have installed sendmail in a Debian potato box. I have the following strange behaviour. When I sent a message to an unknown user it returns the following error to me (this is ok) Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:09:25 -0300 From:

Re: Sendmail Question

2002-01-06 Thread Nick Furman
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, nate wrote: > i can't get sendmail to read the access db. ive been trying > off and on for over a year..works great on sendmail 8.9.3 though. >From what I have found, the release after 8.9.3 is when the feature was "removed" from the typical install of sendmail. I think I got

Re: Sendmail Question

2002-01-06 Thread nate
> Hi Everyone! > > I've recently downloaded the stable version of Debian 2.2. I am > replacing some servers that have Debian 2.1 (and an older version > of Sendmail). Does anyone use Sendmail with the new Debian > version? I'm trying to get my sendmail to pay attention to my > /etc/mail/a

Sendmail Question

2002-01-05 Thread Nick Furman
Hi Everyone! I've recently downloaded the stable version of Debian 2.2. I am replacing some servers that have Debian 2.1 (and an older version of Sendmail). Does anyone use Sendmail with the new Debian version? I'm trying to get my sendmail to pay attention to my /etc/mail/access.db fil

Debian Sendmail Question

2001-03-21 Thread Kevin Long
I am an internet site. When I set up sendmail on debian I get masquerade support. What do I need to change if anything to set myself up as straight SMTP, with vhost POP? Should I disregard the masquerade envelope directive and peers dir -- or do I need to edit something in .mc (I assume I need t

Re: URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP!

2000-10-12 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Ferrell, Tim wrote: > The config file builds ok (after squawking about empty dbs - access, > relay_domains, and local_host_names) and sendmail runs. I receive mail but > cannot send/relay - I get smtp Connection Refused errors in the mail.log. > Also, under

Re: URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP!

2000-10-12 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Ferrell, Tim wrote: > Let me start by saying I am not a network admin... but I play one on TV Me too! > FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') > and in /etc/mail/mailertable I have the following line: > > mcgeecorp.comSMTP:[192.168.0.6] > > The c

URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP!

2000-10-12 Thread Ferrell, Tim
Title: URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP! Let me start by saying I am not a network admin... but I play one on TV :-) I have recently switch to Debian from RedHat 6.2 and have hit major turbulence porting the sendmail config. The machine in question is our firewall/DNS

Sendmail question

2000-08-18 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! Sorry for off-topic question. I use Exim and Postfix and now i must install sendmail on one of my servers so the question is How can i set the proper return-path header in sendmail ? -- My other computer is a 4000 node Beowulf cluster.

[OT] Stupid sendmail question

2000-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
I've got one box running sendmail to support some legacy configs. Several clients connect to this server but travel through a PIX firewall to get there. It seems that the PIX gets pissy about allowing ident requests from the sendmail server abck to the client. I'm trying to determine whether ident

quick sendmail question

2000-06-02 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all ... the output from "ps -eax | grep sendmail" shows that sendmail is rejecting all connections requested on its port (no. 25). Does anyone know how I can quickly change it so that it will accept connections? thanks - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc

Sendmail question

2000-03-23 Thread Jeff Hopkins
Title: Sendmail question Hi, I tried posting to Sendmail's NG with no success.  Maybe I might find the answer here.  I am using Sendmail 8.10 running Woody(doing great).  I tried RH because of a hardware requirement, but switched back within two days.  Dselect is a very handy tool.  I m

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 09:24:34AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't > > > get it to work: > > [snip] > > > > > > However, I have an

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-21 Thread addiction
>On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: >> I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't >> get it to work: >[snip] >> >> However, I have an old sendmail.cf V8.7 file that works perfectly >> with /etc/mail/users.db (it sent this email). >> >> Any clues

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't > > get it to work: > [snip] > > > > However, I have an old sendmail.cf V8.7 file that works perfectly > > with /etc/mail/users.db (it sent t

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't > get it to work: [snip] > > However, I have an old sendmail.cf V8.7 file that works perfectly > with /etc/mail/users.db (it sent this email). > > Any clues? Nope -

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > how (or if) I can make my sender address stop looking > > like this: > > > > From: > > (Morpheus is, of course, my "hostname", or > > what I named my computer.) > > The solution that I used (and that I'm about to try again, now that > you've reminded me) i

Re: silly sendmail question - solved

1999-09-18 Thread Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear
Thanks to all who offered advice, but I did finally find a way to trick sendmail into using the address I wanted it to (as you can see by my address on this post, hopefully). The FAQs and so forth were never a help to me. I just kept changing my configuration files around until it worked. (Took a

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: > Greetings... > > I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the > how-to" or "check the archives" but I have to post my question > anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. > > My question is this: I do not

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread Allan K. Neal
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: > Greetings... > > I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the how-to" > or "check the archives" but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done > both and I'm still clueless. > > My question is this: I do

silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread add|ct|on
Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the how-to" or "check the archives" but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect to the net via PPP. I use sendm

Bind/Sendmail question

1998-10-11 Thread John Plate
Hi My Debian system is connected to the outer world by uucp. How can I tell Bind that there are no root servers - only the computers on the local network. I can configure Bind with no root server information, but then Sendmail gets an error and holds the mail until I "fix the problem". Thanks i

Sendmail Question.

1998-08-24 Thread Tony Schonfeld
I've a couple of questions about sendmail : i need to store a subdomain in a pop account, i've uncomment the line: 'Kmailertable dbm /etc/mailertable' in sendmail.cf and write in this file by example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and build database with 'makemap dbm mailertable < mailertab

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-12 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! > > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header > > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header > > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header > > > > This is possible by > > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpen

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-12 Thread mfrattola
> > mfrattola> Thank you for your answer. It seems to me (from other > mfrattola> messages) that smail is easier to manage WRT this problem > mfrattola> (with routers, directors and the like). Problem is I don't > mfrattola> like smail (and recent problems with newer smail don't make > mfrattola>

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-12 Thread mfrattola
> Hi! > > > > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header > > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header > > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header > > > > This is possible by > > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-11 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> Hi! >> >> >> > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header >> > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header >> > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header >> > >> >This is possible by >> > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf t

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-11 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header > > This is possible by > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive >

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"mfrattola" == mfrattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi, "mfrattola" == mfrattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mfrattola> Am I right in thinking local is used only for localhost mfrattola> bound mail? Where does all this magic come from? Do I have mfrattola> to hand edit sendmail.conf by

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-10 Thread mfrattola
> Hi, > >>"mfrattola" == mfrattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mfrattola> Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every > mfrattola> message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? > mfrattola> Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue all messages > mfrattola> and wait

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Fari Boustanchi
mail server cannot deliver the > email. > > >> It did not change the headers at all. > >> I can send you a copy of the config file (sendmail.cf) if you require. > >> > >> Ian > >> > > Graham > >> > >> -

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If your username is different on your ISP account, and you want mail to go there, your mail user agent is generally what one configures to set a correct From: and Reply-to: fields; You can, fo course, add to rule set 1 to rewrite outgoing addresses, but that requires knowledge of s

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
ust get a reply saying that the internet isp's mail server cannot deliver the email. >> It did not change the headers at all. >> I can send you a copy of the config file (sendmail.cf) if you require. >> >> Ian >> Graham >> >> ------

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Thomas Apel
Hi! Manoj Srivastava schrieb: > > Hi, > >>"mfrattola" == mfrattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mfrattola> Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every > mfrattola> message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? > mfrattola> Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> >> Hi, >> >>"Graham" == Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: >> >> Graham> Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using >> Graham> either Smail or Sendmail, >> >> Simple in sendmail. >> >> Graham> What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver >> Graham> m

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"mfrattola" == mfrattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mfrattola> Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every mfrattola> message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? mfrattola> Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue all messages mfrattola> and wait for runq to m

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: [snip] > The outgoing server on the win95 machine must be kept as an ip address > because the nameserver won't be running on the linux machine until it is > connected to an ISP name service. e.g SMTP server 192.168.1.25 in my > case. Cant you use the c:\wind

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail, > > What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet > email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-08 Thread Ian Perry
d not change the headers at all. I can send you a copy of the config file (sendmail.cf) if you require. Ian -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian linux > Subject: Re: Smail/Sendmail Question > Date: Monday, 9 March 1998 2:

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-08 Thread mfrattola
> Graham> Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using > Graham> either Smail or Sendmail, > > Simple in sendmail. > > Graham> What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver > Graham> my internet email, The problem I have is that I need one of > Graham> these pac

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Graham" == Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: Graham> Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using Graham> either Smail or Sendmail, Simple in sendmail. Graham> What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver Graham> my internet email, The problem

Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-06 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail, What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to deliver any local mail or network mail to the appropriate user/server, b

Re: Sendmail question.

1997-10-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, What you are asking for is called masquerading (people on hosta.foo.com are trying to masquerade as people from foo.com). This was easy even in pre m4 das of sendmail configuration, and in these new days of m4 ease this is a piece of cake. This /etc/mail/sendmail.mc shall i

Sendmail question.

1997-10-27 Thread Dale Harrison
This isn't particularly Debian, but I'm hoping someone can shed some light anyway. It involves Sendmail, so if you don't care for it, you can ignore the rest of this message :) Heres the deal. I have two hosts. hosta.foo.com and hostb.foo.com. hosta uses hostb as its smtp gateway. [hosta is inte

YASQ (yet another sendmail question), more detailed

1997-10-15 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On 14 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi, > > I doubt it's sendmail problem (I mean, nothing that a recompile will > solve). It looks like a configuration problem. > > Can you send more information to the list? Your hosts names, > your sendmail.mc file, where are you trying to send mail to, etc

Re: YASQ (yet another sendmail question)

1997-10-14 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I doubt it's sendmail problem (I mean, nothing that a recompile will solve). It looks like a configuration problem. Can you send more information to the list? Your hosts names, your sendmail.mc file, where are you trying to send mail to, etc. See ya. E.- Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <[EMAIL PROTE

YASQ (yet another sendmail question)

1997-10-13 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, I've a small "intranet" running with debian. In fact, there are only two machines which are not connected to the internet. I don't use a name server on either of the machines, it's not needed. Addresses are read from /etc/hosts. I use the latest sendmail package but can't send mail from

Re: Simple sendmail question.

1997-06-17 Thread Roderick Schertler
On 17 Jun 97 09:18:48 -0500, Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Initially the only need to have a host that will pick up mail if our > primary server is down or busy then forward it on when the other > system is back up. You don't have to configure sendmail at all for this to work, it's

Simple sendmail question.

1997-06-17 Thread Chris Brown
I am looking at setting up setting up several mail hosts. After doing a little reading it looks like sendmail is significantly more flexible than smail though possibly a bit more difficult to learn. Initially the only need to have a host that will pick up mail if our primary server is d

Re: sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-03 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, pete wrote: > I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring > /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in > /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register > changes. (used the sendm

Re: sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-02 Thread Mark Boyns
2 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring > /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in > /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register > changes. (used the sendmailconfig program to convert th

sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-02 Thread pete
I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register changes. (used the sendmailconfig program to convert the .mc to .cf). Any pointers would be much app

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > (I think I'm not giving any help... anyway:) > > I've left it blank but it uses smail (pine 3.95q, Debian 1.2.4), not > sendmail... or better: 1) I have smail installed and not sendmail, 2) > that field in pine configuration is blank, 3) changing

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > You should see something like the following in > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: > > # Alias for this host > Cw I have: Cwbraincells.com > # Virtual email domain > # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) > DMyourdomain.com I have: # who I masquerade

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-12 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > I've left it blank but it uses smail (pine 3.95q, Debian 1.2.4), not > sendmail... or better: 1) I have smail installed and not sendmail, 2) > that field in pine configuration is blank, 3) changing configuration of > smail DOES change the results,

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-12 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail. > smtp-server= > > I've left it blank. So I think sendmail is where my problem lies. (I think I'm not giving any help... anyway:) I've left it blank but it uses smail (pin

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Sounds like you don't have a domain set in sendmail config file. > > Ok, I thought as much. How do I change it? I tried running > /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig again but that didn't help. And one look at the > size of the O'Reilly sendmail book was

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
> > Sounds like you don't have a domain set in sendmail config file. Ok, I thought as much. How do I change it? I tried running /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig again but that didn't help. And one look at the size of the O'Reilly sendmail book was enough to put the fear of God in me! > Pine > woul

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
Sounds like you don't have a domain set in sendmail config file. Pine would have nothing to do with this particular error since it uses the local transport (normally). You could also insure that you do have localhost set as smtp host in pine setup. If you have your ISP's host set in pine as s

Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Dale, Sorry for sending this to the whole list but when I tried replying to your mail to me about the pine bug (btw I had a lot of swap space free so that wasn't it but I think the problem is solved now anyway.) I got: 501: HELO Requires Domain Address and sure enough I'm sending out HELO i