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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi Folks,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’ve been a long time Linux user, however I’ve
been sucked back into the Windows world and my skillset in the *nix area is a
little bit rusty.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I run a box at home, which is mainly for webserving my
photos, and allows me to write some Perl scripts for various tasks and gives
the “logic” side of my brain some food to munch on every now and
again. This week I’d been updating some scripts and thought it would be
nice to send some emails out to my WestNet account, rather than staying local
and using POP3 to grab my email, as time at home seems limited these days. This
is when all my dramas began.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I made a backup of my /etc directory, which was stored on a
HD on another machine, however that machine has since died and I can’t
get the information back – *<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>sigh</span></b>*,
the data-gods have been against me so far this year.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The sendmail version is “Sendmail 8.12.5”, RHL
version is “Linux webbot 2.4.18-14”.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Trying to send an email to the only user on the box results
in an error message in the maillog stating:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jan 7 11:07:41 neophytte sendmail[1781]:
j0737fKV001781: from=root, size=630376, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200501070307.j0737fKV001781@neophytte.mine.nu>,
relay=root@localhost</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jan 7 11:07:41 neophytte sendmail[1781]:
j0737fKV001781: to=mortimer, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30014, relay=neophytte.mine.nu.
[202.72.154.34], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by
neophytte.mine.nu.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Trying the verbose mode of sendmail gives me this:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@webbot mail]# sendmail -v mortimer</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>blah</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>mortimer</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>... Connecting to neophytte.mine.nu.
via relay...</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>mortimer</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>... Deferred: Connection refused by
neophytte.mine.nu.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@webbot mail]#</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’ve rebuilt the sendmail.cf file from the sendmail.mc
file with the m4 command (as research has indicated I should do), but this
error still persists. This is a copy of the sendmail.mc file:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@webbot mail]# cat sendmail.mc</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>divert(-1)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl This is the sendmail macro config file. If you make
changes to this file,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl you need the sendmail-cf rpm installed and then have to
generate a</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl new /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by running the following
command:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl m4
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>VERSIONID(`linux setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>OSTYPE(`linux')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl Uncomment and edit the following line if your mail needs
to be sent out</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl through an external mail server:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.westnet.com.au')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confAUTO_REBUILD')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`STATUS_FILE', `/etc/mail/statistics')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',
`authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
PLAIN')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI
DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/usr/share/ssl/certs')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confCACERT',`/usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl
define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/usr/share/ssl/certs/sendmail.pem')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl
define(`confSERVER_KEY',`/usr/share/ssl/certs/sendmail.pem')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `4h')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `5d')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confQUEUE_LA', `12')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl define(`confREFUSE_LA', `18')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(`no_default_msa',`dnl')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o
/etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(redirect)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl The '-t' option will retry delivery if e.g. the user
runs over his quota.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(`access_db',`hash -T<TMPF> -o
/etc/mail/access.db')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback
device 127.0.0.1</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out
if you want</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl to accept email over the network.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl NOTE: binding both IPv4 and IPv6 daemon to the same port
requires</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl a kernel patch</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`port=smtp,Addr=::1, Name=MTA-v6,
Family=inet6')</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl We strongly recommend to comment this one out if you
want to protect</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl yourself from spam. However, the laptop and users on
computers that do</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl not have 24x7 DNS do need this.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>MAILER(smtp)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>MAILER(local)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>MAILER(uucp)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cwlocalhost</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@webbot mail]#</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From what I understand from my research, the Cw command on
the last line is where the mail will be sent, which should be localhost, however
as shown by the log snippet it’s trying to send to it’s own name
and refusing the connection.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is anyone able to stop my poor brain from aching over this?
My primary goal is to get local email working, although being able to send via
the WestNet mail system would be the ultimate goal.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks, Happy New Year to all!</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Richard</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-----</span></font>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>J.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Richard Mortimer</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>IT
Support & Administration</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>MEMO
Communications</span></font> <br>
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