On 12/13/06, Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tuareg, What happens when you do this: telnet localhost
telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Operation timed out telnet: Unable to connect to remote host Does the connection time out? Or do you get a sendmail prompt? Yes, the connection time out. No, I don't get the sendmail prompt, because there is no sendmail running. ps axwww | grep sendmail 47237 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep sendmail I'm sort of mixed up on the order of the posts, here. But let me see if I
can rephrase the problem .... and then possibly help you find a solution ... It seems to me that the problem is that you cannot determine how to make FreeBSD 6.x do like other hosts under your influence, so that it will send email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to another (possibly a hub) server? Is that correct?
Yes, we have older versions of FreeBSD (4.x and 5.x) running on remote servers where we can't interrupt the service, in this servers, we can send e-mails to our main e-mail server, were we get reports of scripts. In those servers, we don't have running sendmail, look: ps axwww | grep sendmail 19702 p0 D+ 0:00.00 grep sendmail % %telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Permission denied telnet: Unable to connect to remote host But, we are able to send emails: mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test Testing from FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE . EOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to main.server.com via esmtp... 220 main.server.com ESMTP
EHLO server.FreeBSD.4.6-RELEASE
250-main.server.com Hello 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 31457280 250-ETRN 250-DSN 250 PIPELINING
MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=78
250 Sender OK
RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 Recipient OK
DATA
354 Enter your message, followed by a dot on a line by itself
.
250 AYQ81844 Message accepted for delivery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent (AYQ81844 Message accepted for delivery) Closing connection to main.server.com
QUIT
221 main.server.com Goodbye First I assume that these other FreeBSD installations are also using
sendmail. If that is NOT correct then your best hope is to replicate your mta configuration from those other hosts. In fact that might not be a bad idea regardless of what they are running :)
You are right, all this installations are also using sendmail. But again, assuming you want to run sendmail and ONLY allow the localhost to
transmit out to another host for collection and/or distribution, enter this value into /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO" Now edit /etc/mail/freebsd.mc. Locate the term "SMART_HOST," uncomment that line, and enter the IP address or fully qualified domain name of your upstream server in place of 'your.isp.mail.server' Note: If 'your.isp.mail.server' is NOT resolvable on the localhost, then you must use the IP address. When you use the IP address, you must put it in [square brackets], like [192.168.2.1]. Now from /etc/mail, type make all install then shutdown and restart the server using your method of choice, or just type /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart And try to send email again. All should work now. But you must remember to configure the TARGET mail server to allow this host to send. I'll leave that as an exercise for you. lane
Have some doubts... about this procedure.. I'm going to explain why.... In this server (from the example, server.FreeBSD.4.6-RELEASE, where we can send e-mail, but sendmail it's not running, rc.conf contains: sendmail_enable="NONE", sendmail it's not running: ps axwww | grep sendmail 19702 p0 D+ 0:00.00 grep sendmail And how I showed you in this messages, we are able to send messages, well.. root can do it, as a normal user I can't: mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TEST Testing from FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE . EOT collect: Cannot write ./dfkBDJDkW19705 (bfcommit, uid=xxx): Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfkBDJDkW19705, uid=xxx: Permission denied The older sysadmin who made this configuration with FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, quit the job and didn't leave any documentation, a how to, nothing, were he explain how he did this. That's the reason why we are looking to repeat this configuration with FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, but couldn't do it.. yet. Thank you for your help. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
