Jarry wrote: > 220 mail.somemydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.0/8.14.0; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 > 19:57:31 GMT > HELO > 501 5.0.0 HELO requires domain address
> > Q1: Why on my "HELO" sendmail does not respond with "250 OK"? The hostname in the HELO message needs to be included. It does not unnecessarily need to be correct, but a lot of anti-spam measures will reject it out of hand if the originating IP address does not have a PTR address that matches it. So if you are connection from foo.example.com HELO foo.example.com > > Q2: What does that "Cannot write ./dfnAAJvV8n022567" mean? > Maybe some write-permition on server side? But what/where? > > -------------------------------- > mail.somemydomain.com ~ # ls -al /var/spool > total 28 > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 30 17:40 . > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 9 19:30 .. > drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Nov 10 19:37 clientmqueue > drwxr-x--- 3 root cron 4096 Apr 7 2009 cron > drwsrws--- 2 fcron fcron 4096 Nov 10 20:00 fcron > drwxr-xr-x 2 mail root 4096 Apr 7 2009 mail > drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp root 4096 Apr 24 2009 mqueue > > mail.somemydomain.com ~ # more /etc/passwd | grep mail > mail:x:8:12:added by portage for mailbase:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin > postmaster:x:14:1000:added by portage for > mailbase:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin > smmsp:x:209:209:added by portage for > sendmail:/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin > mail.somemydomain.com ~ # > -------------------------------- > > I just installed sendmail on mail.somemydomain.com instead > of ssmtp, and did not change a lot, just included all my > server names in /etc/mail/local-host-names. What do I have > to do more??? > > Jarry >
