[WBEL-users] problem acepting incoming mail

Jose Nathaniel G. Nengasca nats@sscrmnl.edu.ph
Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:36:04 +0800


can you try sending your sendmail.mc? just to check...

-----Original Message-----
From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org]On Behalf Of Raúl D. Pittí Palma
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:36 AM
To: Kirby C. Bohling; whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] problem acepting incoming mail


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
>
>
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