All fixed.
Sorry for my stupidity, the target server majesty.lightlink.com
did not have 'majesty.lightlink.com' in its /etc/sendmail.cw file,
as its 'real' name is mail1.lightlink.com.
The command works perfectly if using the real name
echo ping | /usr/lib/sendmail
buddy%emerald.lightlink....@mail1.lightlink.com
Homer
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Noel Jones wrote:
On 12/17/2013 6:45 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Homer Wilson Smith:
From: adore.lightlink.com
echo Subject: ping | /usr/lib/sendmail
buddy%emerald.lightlink....@majesty.lightlink.com
majesty.lightlink.com returns mail loops back to myself.
Both running postfix and allow_percent_hack = yes
Are you lazy?
What hostname is named in
This is the mail system at XXX
I'm sorry etc...
What warnings are logged on that host.
Maybe that will give you a clue.
Wietse
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Homer Wilson Smith Clean Air, Clear Water, Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959 A Green Earth, and Peace, Internet, Ithaca NY
ho...@lightlink.com Is that too much to ask? http://www.lightlink.com
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Wietse Venema wrote:
Homer Wilson Smith:
We are trying to get server A, to send mail through many other
servers, back to server A.
What about
$ echo Subject: ping | /usr/sbin/sendmail user%hosta@hostb \
user%hosta@hostc user%hosta@hostd
Out of the box (*), Postfix will send mail to hostb, hostc, and hostd
that they are supposed to deliver to user@hosta.
(*) main.cf:allow_percent_hack=yes
It would be useful if the 'smart host' could be specified on
the sendmail command line, but alas I don't think this is possible.
Sorry, that would open up all kinds of security holes.
Wietse
It's probably easier to use a command line SMTP tool to inject a
message directly to the remote server. No routing issues and you get
immediate feedback about the SMTP exit status.
I like to use mini_sendmail for this, but there are a dozen others.
See google for details.
(this is one line; beware wrapping)
# mini_sendmail -smajesty.lightlink.com bu...@emerald.lightlink.com
</path/to/some_text
-- Noel Jones
