[WBEL-users] problem acepting incoming mail

["Raúl D. Pittí Palma"]

Hi Kirby!
thanks for your help! I have enabled sendmail to listen on the other 
addresess...
I have setup sendmail.mc properly (i think soo   :-D  )...
my server should process mail for the domain pospan.com , but i do not 
see a properly MX entry on thr DNS.
anyone see this before..


Kirby C. Bohling wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:04:46PM -0500, "Raúl D. Pittí Palma" wrote:
> 
>>Saludos!
>>I have configured a mail server that is working weird.
>>Whenever i try to send a mail to a local user, from the outside, i 
>>recieved the following message:
>>
>>*********ERROR MESG. START*********
>><TESTUSER@MYDOMAIN.COM>:
>><SERVER IP ADRESS> does not like recipient.
>>Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 <TESTUSER@MYDOMAIN.COM>... Relaying denied
>>Giving up on <SERVER IP ADRESS>
>>*********end of error mesg.********
>>
>>i am using sendmail, provided by whitebox.  I ahve the same 
>>configuration running on another server, but that one works just fine.
>>Any ideas ?
>>If someone want, i can send the sendmail.mc  file for revision...
>>Regards!
>>RP
> 
> 
> I'm a sendmail newbie, but I remember that RedHat made the following
> change during RH 8/9.  This is a quote from the RH9 Release Notes:
> 
> o By default, the Sendmail mail transport agent (MTA) does not accept
>   network connections from any host other than the local computer. If
>   you want to configure Sendmail as a server for other clients, you must
>   edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change the DAEMON_OPTIONS line to also
>   listen on network devices (or comment out this option entirely using
>   the dnl comment delimiter). You must then regenerate
>   /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by running the following command (as root):
> 
>   make -C /etc/mail
> 
>   Note that you must have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to
>   work.
> 
> Other then that I have no advice.  It might be helpful to know what
> the other e-mail server you took the configuration from, and how you
> know they are the same.
> 
> Any chance we can get the original RHEL release notes included on
> WB?  It's a bit of a pain to track them down.  I happen to have a
> copy because we own RHEL at work.  After looking in there, I see
> that the RHEL has the same note as quoted above.
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 		Kirby
> 
>