[plug] Problems with Sendmail

[J. Richard Mortimer]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the suggestion, however the local-host-names did contain the
domain:

[root at webbot mail]# cat local-host-names
# local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.
localhost
localdomain
localhost.localdomain
neophytte.mine.nu
webbot
127.0.0.1
202.72.154.34
[root at webbot mail]#

And the relay-domains file contains:

[root at webbot mail]# cat relay-domains
localhost
neophytte.mine.nu
webbot
127.0.0.1
202.72.154.34
192.168.0

[root at webbot mail]#

But I still get the same result in the logfile:

Jan  7 12:54:54 neophytte sendmail[2185]: j074ssPf002185: from=root,
size=1684, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200501070454.j074ssPf002185 at neophytte.mine.nu>, relay=root at localhost
Jan  7 12:54:55 neophytte sendmail[2185]: j074ssPf002185: to=mortimer,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay,
pri=30014, relay=neophytte.mine.nu. [202.72.154.34], dsn=4.0.0,
stat=Deferred: Connection refused by neophytte.mine.nu.

I'm presuming those two files look roughly correct, or won't have any
negative impact for containing all the names and IP addresses?

Thanks

Richard



-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au]
On Behalf Of Mark O'Shea
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 12:49 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Problems with Sendmail

Okay, okay, I think I see the problem.  Your sendmail is accepting the
mail locally, then saying, wait a second, we don't accept that domain
here, we better forward it on to who does, so it does a lookup for the
ip address and try's to connect to that (blissfully unaware that it is
it's own ip address), then it finds that that one doesn't accept
connections (which should have been fixed before by what I said but
doen't seem to have been, but it shouldn't matter anyway).

So all you need to do is add in your domain with those that sendmail
accepts mail for, which is in file, er probably local-host-names with
all the other dbs, but it might be the old name.


-- 
Mark O'Shea 

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