[WBEL-users] Need Help Configuring Sendmail
Francisco A. Lozano
fralolo@factoryw.com
Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:51:12 +0100
The mistake is trying to use sendmail, man. Sendmail is an *excellent* piece
of software - IF YOU NEED IT. And seems that you don't. Trust me, try
postfix.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU>
To: "Francisco A. Lozano" <fralolo@factoryw.com>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 10:50 PM
Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] Need Help Configuring Sendmail
Well all I can say is that I once asked a machinist who worked for us
how he got to be so good at making delicate and intricate scientific
instruments.
He pointed to his scrap box and said, he got to be good at it by making
a lot of mistakes and learning from them.
I'm not a sendmail expert, but I am learning from my mistakes.
Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
California State University, Fullerton
Phone: 714 278-3884
FAX: 714 278-5810
email: mshapiro@fullerton.edu
web: http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Shapiro.html
travel and family pictures:
http://community.webshots.com/user/mhshapiro
-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco A. Lozano [mailto:fralolo@factoryw.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:44 PM
To: Shapiro, Mark; whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Need Help Configuring Sendmail
Anyone who *NEEDS* sendmail knows how to configure it... otherwise, you
don't *NEED* it - then you'd better use postfix ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: Shapiro, Mark
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: [WBEL-users] Need Help Configuring Sendmail
I am running WBEL-3.0, and I am having difficulty configuring sendmail.
I installed the sendmail-cf program from disk #3.
Then I commented out the line
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
Then I tried make -C /etc/mail
But nothing was changed.
I also tried m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
That produced a new sendmail.cf file.
I rebooted and tried to send mail from the machine using the mail
program as
follows
mail mshapiro@fullerton.edu < testfile
This fails with the following error message:
The original message was received at Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:34:54 -0800
from ion4 [127.0.0.1]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<mshapiro@fullerton.edu>
(reason: 501 5.1.8 Domain of sender address
mshapiro@localhost.localdomain does not exist
t)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail2.fullerton.edu.:
>>> MAIL From:<mshapiro@localhost.localdomain> SIZE=364
<<< 501 5.1.8 Domain of sender address mshapiro@localhost.localdomain
does
not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error
--i0JJYsoU002704.1074540894/localhost.localdomain
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
Received-From-MTA: DNS; ion4
Arrival-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:34:54 -0800
Final-Recipient: RFC822; mshapiro@fullerton.edu
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.8
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 5.1.8 Domain of sender address
mshapiro@localhost.localdomain doe
s not exist
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:34:54 -0800
--i0JJYsoU002704.1074540894/localhost.localdomain
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Return-Path: <mshapiro@localhost.localdomain>
Received: from localhost.localdomain (ion4 [127.0.0.1])
by localhost.localdomain (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id
i0JJYsoU002702
for <mshapiro@fullerton.edu>; Mon, 19 Jan 2004
If I use the Evolution mail program to send a mail message, then the
mail
gets sent properly.
I also cannot send mail to the machine: The error messages look like
the
following:
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: Test message
Sent: 1/19/2004 11:23 AM
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
mshapiro@ion4.fullerton.edu on 1/19/2004 11:23 AM
You do not have permission to send to this recipient. For
assistance, contact your system administrator.
< mail3.fullerton.edu #5.7.1 SMTP; 550 5.7.1
<mshapiro@ion4.fullerton.edu>... Relaying denied>
I've probably failed to configure something in the system properly. Any
suggestions for correcting the sending problem (needed to send mail from
some scripts I use), and for correcting the receiving problem would be
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
California State University, Fullerton
Phone: 714 278-3884
FAX: 714 278-5810
email: mshapiro@fullerton.edu
web: http://chaos.fullerton.edu/Shapiro.html
travel and family pictures:
http://community.webshots.com/user/mhshapiro