Sendmai can send mails but unable to receive mails

[satimis]

Hi folks,

slamd64-11.0
sendmail

The mail server can send mails but unable to receive mails. I don't have its front-end package such Evolution/Thunderbird installed. I ran command line to perform following test.

1)
# telnet localhost 25
....
etc.

send a mail to yahoo.com. Mail received without problem.

2)
Send a webmail from yahoo.com to this server. Failure.

warning:

<satimis@satimis.com>:
220.232.213.178 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 <satimis@satimis.com>... Relaying denied
Giving up on 220.232.213.178.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <satimis@yahoo.com>
Received: (qmail 84830 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Feb 2007 11:15:33 
-0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
  s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
  
h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID;
  
b=o2Bp+ydrolZ2ztzWv6a3BgAKUwnjRoONkH7s8QQUKlLYPnVA/tH0O1GNB5d6ToaiC/0YLovdFzESj3HjEd1bgIQb5ehR5V6IbfZo9e5Cf9h1PS40xlUTaq08B9mEUG5SztuSnfzBm5ocYDV7jrZ/A+t+y5j9/D4vQ2M7lioWHbA=;
X-YMail-OSG: 
W7wktw8VM1nuEKFpUVsL2rOsdscNa.EoIKc8eUkqqp5ZIkRPUx28Gw1u5La6L2.uxsLsYVl03O6nEZtiVx5iQixlH77Tc7THCxEA805G0JaOCTuEf.9R42QqSCvTGq8BLajYLYpGt6EED5A-
Received: from [220.232.213.178] by web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com via 
HTTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:15:32 CST
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:15:32 +0800 (CST)
....

220.232.213.178 = external fixed IP address of the server
192.168.0.10 = internal IP of the server
domain = satimis.com

# echo '$=m' | sendmail -bt -d0.4

Version 8.13.8
 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
                NAMED_BIND NETINET NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF
                SOCKETMAP STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG
Canonical name: localhost
 UUCP nodename: host
        a.k.a.: host
        a.k.a.: [127.0.0.1]
        a.k.a.: [192.168.0.10]
        a.k.a.: host.satimis.com

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
      (short domain name) $w = localhost
  (canonical domain name) $j = localhost
         (subdomain name) $m = <null>
              (node name) $k = host
========================================================

WARNING: local host name (localhost) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I?
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>

Please advise where I have to edit on /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

TIA

B.R.
satimis

[Johan Strange]

Hi,

Go to etc/mail/sendmail.cf and look for

# SMTP daemon options

O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA

change the loopback address to 192.168.0.10

then go to etc/mail/access and add your domain name with the entry RELAY

i.e.

satimis.com RELAY

I hope this helps you

[satimis]

Hi Johan Strange,

Tks for your advice.

Go to etc/mail/sendmail.cf and look for

# SMTP daemon options

O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA

change the loopback address to 192.168.0.10

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf

...
# SMTP daemon options
O DaemonPortOptions=port=smtp, Addr=192.168.0.10, Name=MTA
#O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E

There is no such line "
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA"

Added "O DaemonPortOptions=port=smtp, Addr=192.168.0.10, Name=MTA"
Comment out "O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA"

then go to etc/mail/access and add your domain name with the entry RELAY

i.e.

satimis.com RELAY

# ls /etc/mail | grep access

access
access.db

# cat /etc/mail/access
No printout. An empty file

# find / -name access

/etc/mail/access

Where can I download a sample access file?


# which getmail

/usr/bin/getmail

getmail is also running on slamd64-11.0. What is it used for? Tks.


B.R.
satimis

[falko]

Originally Posted by satimis

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf

...
# SMTP daemon options
O DaemonPortOptions=port=smtp, Addr=192.168.0.10, Name=MTA
#O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E

Are you sure you want to run Sendmail on port 587 instead of 25?

What's the output of

ls -la /etc/mail

?

[satimis]

Hi falko,

Are you sure you want to run Sendmail on port 587 instead of 25?

I haven't touched sendmail.cf. It is the default config file after installation. I want to run Sendmail on port 25. port 25 is working for sending mail but not for receiving mails.

I also found getmail running on this box. What is it for, receiving mails? Let Sendmail sending mails?

What's the output of

ls -la /etc/mail

?

$ ls -la /etc/mail

total 268
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 2007-02-16 14:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 47 root root   4096 2007-02-17 10:08 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    486 2003-05-14 03:07 Makefile
-rw-r-----  1 root root      0 2002-06-02 03:57 access
-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-02 04:11 access.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    701 2001-01-04 05:18 aliases
-rw-r-----  1 root smmsp 12288 2006-02-02 04:11 aliases.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2003-05-05 06:09 domaintable
-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-02 04:11 domaintable.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   5594 2006-10-01 19:16 helpfile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     45 2003-05-05 06:36 local-host-names
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2003-05-05 06:09 mailertable
-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-02 04:11 mailertable.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  60224 2007-02-16 14:13 sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  60224 2007-02-16 14:13 sendmail.cf~
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   1448 2007-02-16 15:43 statistics
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  41114 2006-10-01 19:15 submit.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     63 2003-05-05 06:36 trusted-users
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2003-05-05 06:09 virtusertable
-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-02 04:11 virtusertable.db

B.R.
satimis

[martinfst]

getmail is a tool to retrieve external and personal mail from a remote POP/IMAP mailbox to your local mailbox. Fetchmail is another variant doing the same thing. It has nothing to do with delivering or receiving email as in the MTA function. It's a user tool, that needs to be configured and started by/for a specific user. It's not related to your sendmail problem, for which I don't have an answer.