Re: sendmail

2023-10-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:22:47PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. What was happenning in between these dates: software updates, your changes? Now I get systemctl start sendmail.service [ ... ] Sep 30 23:08:29 Sapp

Re: sendmail

2023-09-30 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 23:22 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Sep 30 23:08:29 Sappho sendmail[88774]: My unqualified host name (Sappho) > unknown; sleeping for retry > Sep 30 23:09:15 Sappho systemd[1]: sendmail.service: start operation timed > out. Terminating. > Sep 30 23:09:15 Sappho systemd[1]: s

Re: sendmail

2023-09-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 5:45 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am 30.09.2023 um 23:22 schrieb Patrick Dupre: > > Hello, > > > > It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. > > > > Now I get > > > > systemctl start sendmail.service > > Job for sendmail.service failed because

Re: sendmail

2023-09-30 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 30.09.2023 um 23:22 schrieb Patrick Dupre: Hello, It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16. Now I get systemctl start sendmail.service Job for sendmail.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status sendmail.service" and "journalctl -xeu sen

Re: Sendmail auth mechanisms missing after upgrade to Fedora 37

2022-11-18 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:58:02 +0100 (CET) Scott van Looy via users wrote: > Hi, > > Having upgraded to the new Fedora 37, I cannot now send mail via > sendmail remotely using auth. > > Looking at /var/log/maillog, when I try and connect to send an email > I get: > > "AUTH warning: no mechanisms

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Jan2016 22:11, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Saturday 02 Jan 2016 2:32:36 PM Ed Greshko wrote: Well, since your cronjob is a program which performs an email function and since those errors being reported are referencing files in your directory I would say the most likely cause is the interactio

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-02 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Saturday 02 Jan 2016 2:32:36 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, since your cronjob is a program which performs an email function and > since those errors being reported are referencing files in your directory I > would say the most likely cause is the interaction between your cronjob and > an MTA and

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/02/16 12:32, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:25:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote: >> Well, you have a cron job called r2e. What does that contain? It very well >> may have been calling sendmail but it is probable it required "real" >> sendmail and since you didn't have it installed

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:25:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, you have a cron job called r2e. What does that contain? It very well > may have been calling sendmail but it is probable it required "real" > sendmail and since you didn't have it installed until now it failed. See > my other response a

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/01/16 17:27, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 8:25:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote: >> It isn't "sendmail" which is placing those log entries. It is "crond" and >> the PID of crond is 1188. It would appear that a cron job is calling >> sendmail and producing those messages. > Installi

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 8:25:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > It isn't "sendmail" which is placing those log entries. It is "crond" and > the PID of crond is 1188. It would appear that a cron job is calling > sendmail and producing those messages. Installing sendmail did clear up a lot of entries. I am

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/31/15 17:52, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > Hi, > > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see > a > sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sendmail or what installed > it

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/31/15 17:52, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see > a > sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sendmail or what installed > it. > > De

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 12:22:40 PM Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi, > > Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do > it as it is sendmail not installed? > > Z I use rss2email to get rss2email in inbox. In rss2email I have chosen to use smtp and it shouldn't ping sendmail ye

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/31/2015 03:22 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do it as it is sendmail not installed? whereis sendmail will give you the answer. I think that it's part of the base install. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do it as it is sendmail not installed? Z 2015-12-31 10:52 GMT+01:00 Sudhir Khanger : > Hi, > > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/06/2014 10:19 PM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> Are you using domain names that you own? Is there a DNS entry that >>> points to someone else's IPs? > > Kevin Cummings: >> My domain is dynamic DNS, owned by Dyn DNS, but "allocated to me". In >> that regard, I own kjchome.homeip.net (I pay for its

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Are you using domain names that you own? Is there a DNS entry that >> points to someone else's IPs? Kevin Cummings: > My domain is dynamic DNS, owned by Dyn DNS, but "allocated to me". In > that regard, I own kjchome.homeip.net (I pay for its use). If you do a > DNS lookup on it, you wi

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/06/2014 11:27 AM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:37 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: >> Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails >> have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: >> >>> # mailq >>> /var/spool/mqueue (1 reque

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:37 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: > Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails > have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: > > > # mailq > > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > > -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
Further information. Both of the last 2 emails sent from my laptop have been delivered immediately. Its the emails I send out from my iPhone that are getting caught in the queue. I sent one to an external address that queued up as described. I sent another directly to my address, and it got del

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/05/2014 10:56 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > On 08/05/2014 09:37 AM, Kevin Cummings wrote: >> Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails >> have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: >> >>> # mailq >>> /var/spool/mqueue (1 request

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin Martin
On 08/05/2014 09:37 AM, Kevin Cummings wrote: > Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails > have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: > >> # mailq >> /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) >> -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- >>

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/03/2014 01:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Somewhere I encountered that .forward was deprecated even back in f17, > and I had to stop using it and rely on editing /etc/aliases and running > newaliases. My /root/.forward works perfectly fine here in F20. I forward all root mail to my regu

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/03/2014 12:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/03/2014 12:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory. /home/sdstern/.forward contains \r...@sterndata.co

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/03/2014 12:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory. /home/sdstern/.forward contains \r...@sterndata.com which is a valid, external email account but mai

Re: sendmail ignoring .forward?

2014-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/03/2014 11:06 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > Ignore the previous cron messages. It seems that the mail is going into > space because sendmail is not respecting the .forward in my home directory. > > /home/sdstern/.forward contains > > \r...@sterndata.com > > which is a valid, external email acc

Re: sendmail TLS question

2013-08-23 Thread Bill Oliver
Thanks. I'll give that a try. billo On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/23/2013 01:44 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I'm having a bit of an issue with sendmail. To be honest, this is in a recent installation of CentOS rather than fedora, but the CentOS forum hasn't been particularly usef

Re: sendmail TLS question

2013-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2013 01:44 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: I'm having a bit of an issue with sendmail. To be honest, this is in a recent installation of CentOS rather than fedora, but the CentOS forum hasn't been particularly useful. So, this is a cry of desperation. Several years ago, I needed help getting

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/05/2013 10:22 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 03/05/2013 05:45 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Configure_sendmail_as_a_client_for_SMTPs Yeah, I read that. It looks like a start. I already have stunnel installed (for what I can't remember, I thought it was my

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
Awesome! The stunnel trick works! 1) I set up /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf as in the Fedora Wiki example (I used port 25025). 2) I then ran "stunnel" from root. [I'll have to put that in rc.local before I reboot.] 3) In sendmail.mc, I used: define(`SMART_HOST', `relay:[localhost]') define(`RE

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/05/2013 09:47 PM, Michael E. Maher wrote: Sounds like your best bet is to use stunnel. I don't have a reference for sendmail but you could probably adapt the one for postfix[0] pretty trivially. Debian also has a pretty nice write up[1] on this. There is one other possibility, but it's n

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Michael E. Maher
Hi, On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 22:36 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > I'm not sure what this proves as so many hosts these days are configure > to not respond to pings, so they can't be DDOSed via ping. Yeah does seem more common now. > > > Then see if you can open a session using telnet on all the

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 03/05/2013 05:45 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > The simple answer is that sendmail can't do that by itself as it has no > support for client-side SSL. You need to use a program such as _stunnel_ > to provide the encryption wrapper. Here is a fedoraproject wiki posting > that describes the basics

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 03/04/2013 11:29 PM, Michael E. Maher wrote: > On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 23:11 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> Sorry, just re-subscripbed after a long absence. Not sure if my >> original went through, so I'm resending. Sorry if it is a duplicate, I >> wouldn't have seen any of the early respons

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/04/2013 10:11 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: NOW: Verizon wants to: 1) change the outgoing server name to smtp.verizon.net 2) change the port from 587 (MSA) to 465 (SMTPS), and 3) require SSL for communication. Sure, I can change my iPhone settings, and each Thunder

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-05 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Sorry, just re-subscripbed after a long absence. Not sure if my > original went through, so I'm resending. Sorry if it is a duplicate, I > wouldn't have seen any of the early responses > > Once upon a time, I was using a standard, out of the box, sendmail > configu

Re: sendmail & Verizon

2013-03-04 Thread Michael E. Maher
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 23:11 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Sorry, just re-subscripbed after a long absence. Not sure if my > original went through, so I'm resending. Sorry if it is a duplicate, I > wouldn't have seen any of the early responses > > Once upon a time, I was using a standard,

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/10/2012 04:29 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > That's because I read my email in the order it was received (not threaded) and > reply to it as I go Yes, that was apparent. Of course it is a preference. I just prefer threaded and reading all the unread mails in a thread before answering anything. S

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/09/2012 12:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:58 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: Wrong. I had to set sendmail up to use my hosting company as a smarthost because I needed to use it to update linuxcounter.org and my ISP blocks outbound port 25. I added this line (among other changes) to send

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/10/2012 01:58 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > Wrong. I had to set sendmail up to use my hosting company as a smarthost > because I > needed to use it to update linuxcounter.org and my ISP blocks outbound port > 25. I > added this line (among other changes) to sendmail.mc and rebuilt sendmail.cf: Y

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/09/2012 02:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: But, when sendmail talks to sendmail (your system to orange) it is using port 25. I don't think there is a way to tell sendmail to use port 587 to connect to a remote server (MTA--->MTA). Port 587 is supposed to be used for MUA--->MTA communications.

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/2012 04:28 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 09.07.2012 10:23, schrieb Ed Greshko: >> Port 587 and AUTH are 2 different things >> >> Port 587 is SMTP or ESMTP over SSL. The connection is secured by SSL in the >> same >> manner as HTTPS. HTTP uses port 80 while HTTPS uses 443. But the

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, roland said: > I suppose that if one uses the ESMTP option, one has to install esmtp and > configure it as needed. > as discribed in : > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/send-mail-with-esmtp-for-a-simple-single-user-system/232 No, that's a program that is confusin

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.07.2012 10:23, schrieb Ed Greshko: > Port 587 and AUTH are 2 different things > > Port 587 is SMTP or ESMTP over SSL. The connection is secured by SSL in the > same > manner as HTTPS. HTTP uses port 80 while HTTPS uses 443. But the underlying > protocol is the same. Same goes here

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/2012 05:12 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > But, when sendmail talks to sendmail (your system to orange) it is using port > 25. I > don't think there is a way to tell sendmail to use port 587 to connect to a > remote > server (MTA--->MTA). Port 587 is supposed to be used for MUA--->MTA > commu

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/08/2012 02:34 PM, rb wrote: > I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and > credentials. > > I modified sendmail.mc as follows: > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/2012 04:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Port 587 is SMTP or ESMTP over SSL. The connection is secured by SSL in the > same > manner as HTTPS. HTTP uses port 80 while HTTPS uses 443. But the underlying > protocol is the same. Same goes here. > > AUTH is part of ESMTP and defined in rfc4954.

Re: sendmail

2012-07-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/09/2012 03:37 PM, roland wrote: > I suppose that if one uses the ESMTP option, one has to install esmtp and > configure > it as needed. > as discribed in : > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/send-mail-with-esmtp-for-a-simple-single-user-system/232 > > How do you tell sendmail to u

Re: sendmail

2012-07-08 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
rb wrote: > I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and > credentials. > > I modified sendmail.mc as follows: > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN > PLAIN')dnl > FE

Re: sendmail

2012-07-08 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/08/2012 01:34 AM, rb wrote: > I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and > credentials. > > I modified sendmail.mc as follows: > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5

Re: sendmail

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, rb wrote: > I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and > credentials. [] Save yourself from a lot of trouble, painfull configuration and even more painfull debugging, and use postfix as your MTA. Yes, that's not a solution to your problem, and l

Re: sendmail

2012-07-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, rb said: > I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and > credentials. > > I modified sendmail.mc as follows: > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN

Re: sendmail

2012-07-08 Thread Jack Craig
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:34 PM, rb wrote: > I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and > credentials. > > I modified sendmail.mc as follows: > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD

Re: Sendmail needs authentication with Smart Host

2011-01-12 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 01/12/2011 07:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/12/2011 03:29 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> It doesn't work >> to just set the SMART_HOST, and I can't seem to find the right macro for >> user/password authentication information > > Most of what you need is at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_

Re: Sendmail needs authentication with Smart Host

2011-01-12 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 01/12/2011 07:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/12/2011 03:29 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> It doesn't work >> to just set the SMART_HOST, and I can't seem to find the right macro for >> user/password authentication information > > Most of what you need is at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_

Re: Sendmail needs authentication with Smart Host

2011-01-12 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 01/12/2011 07:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/12/2011 03:29 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> It doesn't work >> to just set the SMART_HOST, and I can't seem to find the right macro for >> user/password authentication information > > Most of what you need is at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_

Re: Sendmail needs authentication with Smart Host

2011-01-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/12/2011 03:29 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > It doesn't work > to just set the SMART_HOST, and I can't seem to find the right macro for > user/password authentication information Most of what you need is at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_auth.html What it doesn't mention is that after

Re: sendmail problem in F14

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Stevens
On Monday, December 20, 2010 02:14:37 pm JB wrote: > Dave Stevens uniserve.com> writes: > > ... > > [root davehost ~]# mailq > > > > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > > > > -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- > > Sender/Recipient--- > > oBE00415002020*1054959

Re: sendmail problem in F14

2010-12-20 Thread JB
Dave Stevens uniserve.com> writes: > ... > [root davehost ~]# mailq > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- > Sender/Recipient--- > oBE00415002020*10549593 Mon Dec 13 16:03 uniserve.com> > (reply: read error

Re: sendmail is dying!

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 12/06/2010 02:23 PM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > try mailman 1) please don't top-post. 2) Why would an email-list management program be a good replacement for an email transport agent? 3) Alternatives to sendmail would include qmail, postfix, exim, etc. > Krishna -- Kevin J. Cumm

Re: sendmail is dying!

2010-12-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/06/2010 11:23 AM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: > try mailman > > Krishna > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Sarkar, Kaushik > wrote: > >> *Hi,* >> >> * * >> >> *i am using fedora12 and started sendmail successfully. But it is dying >> within few mins with the message saying.* >> >> * *

Re: sendmail is dying!

2010-12-06 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
try mailman Krishna On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Sarkar, Kaushik wrote: > *Hi,* > > * * > > *i am using fedora12 and started sendmail successfully. But it is dying > within few mins with the message saying.* > > * * > > *"sendmail dead but pid exist."* > > * * > > *from /var/log/maillog :* >

Re: sendmail is dying!

2010-12-06 Thread JB
Sarkar, Kaushik netapp.com> writes: > ... Verify package: # rpm -Vv sendmail If you are patient to analyze the results, verify all installed packages: # rpm -Va Consider reinstalling: # yum reinstall sendmail JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chang

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/18/2010 08:02 AM, Oluwagbenga Shobowale wrote: > Sorry about the top post its my email client. I think you would need to run > Makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db< /etc/mail/access > This should allow you relay the mail to other networks . But I think you need > to read up on sendmail configur

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 11:02 AM, Oluwagbenga Shobowale wrote: > Sorry about the top post its my email client. I think you would need to run > Makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db< /etc/mail/access > This should allow you relay the mail to other networks . But I think you need > to read up on sendmail configur

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Oluwagbenga Shobowale
nal Message- From: Chris Adams Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:24:38 To: Community support for Fedora users Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Sendmail failure Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: > Where should I be l

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 10:24 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: > >> Where should I be looking for this problem? Does sendmail need to be >> running on this server (it is not)? >> > If you are going to use sendmail, then it needs to be running (chkconfig > sendmail

Re: Sendmail failure

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: > Where should I be looking for this problem? Does sendmail need to be > running on this server (it is not)? If you are going to use sendmail, then it needs to be running (chkconfig sendmail on; service sendmail start). The daemon has to be running to p

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread JD
On 08/18/2010 07:21 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > On 08/18/2010 09:08 PM, JD wrote: >>On 08/18/2010 04:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: Thanks to all who made important suggestions. It now works. >>> Adding SOLVED to the Subject k

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 18:08 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/18/2010 04:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: > >> Thanks to all who made important suggestions. > >> It now works. > > Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* > > it

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/18/2010 09:08 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/18/2010 04:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: >>> Thanks to all who made important suggestions. >>> It now works. >> Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* >> it was solved.

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread JD
On 08/18/2010 04:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: >> Thanks to all who made important suggestions. >> It now works. > Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* > it was solved. That's the point. > > poc > Well, it was no

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:52 -0700, JD wrote: > Thanks to all who made important suggestions. > It now works. Adding SOLVED to the Subject kind of implies that you'll explain *how* it was solved. That's the point. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: Sendmail on a LAN - SOLVED

2010-08-18 Thread JD
Thanks to all who made important suggestions. It now works. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread JD
On 08/18/2010 03:28 AM, Tim wrote: > Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of > addresses your ISP doles out to its private customers, you may be on a > blacklist of IPs to ignore. It's a common practice for many other mail > servers, or their incoming mail filters, to

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 09:06 PM, Tim wrote: > While the next person to get your IP mayn't actually receive mail, > they'll still get attempts to connect to their SMTP server, whether or > not they even have them, until other people's systems find out about > your new IP. Sure. As a matter of fact, I did

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/17/2010 08:28 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 07:50 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 08/17/2010 05:10 PM, JD wrote: >>>On 08/17/2010 04:56 PM, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:47 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 08/

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 09:13 PM, Tim wrote: > The trouble is that the problem is external, and out of your control. > Others can use any number of filtering techniques, good or bad. If your > on just one black list, that's a problem. Yes, many things are external to ones system and out of ones control.

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: > I have done all that. Really. ISP (at&t) has unblocked port 25 > per my request. So I can indeed smtp out. But when an smtp request > comes in to the router, the router seems to get confused as to the > session type - and calls is an Unknown session type, and blocks > the request. Rout

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of >> addresses your ISP doles out to its private customers, you may be on a >> blacklist of IPs to ignore. It's a common practice for many other mail >> servers, or their incoming mail filters, to only accept mail sent from >

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Whether it be monthly, or more rapidly, SMTP servers aren't supposed to >> change (numerical IP) addresses. It's not a good idea to run a SMTP >> server from a dynamic address. When your address changes, you lose mail >> (from anything that cached your IP, and keeps on using the cached >>

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 06:28 PM, Tim wrote: > Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of > addresses your ISP doles out to its private customers, you may be on a > blacklist of IPs to ignore. It's a common practice for many other mail > servers, or their incoming mail filters, to o

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/2010 06:31 PM, Tim wrote: > Whether it be monthly, or more rapidly, SMTP servers aren't supposed to > change (numerical IP) addresses. It's not a good idea to run a SMTP > server from a dynamic address. When your address changes, you lose mail > (from anything that cached your IP, and k

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Dyndns, and other such things, are useful for giving yourself a hostname >> that you can control, to a static IP. But aren't going to be much good >> if you have a dynamic IP. Private webserving's easy enough with a >> varying IP, mail serving's another matter. PaulCartwright: > You can

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-18 Thread Tim
Gordon Messmer: >> You'll want to arrange a smart-host through which you can route all of >> your outbound mail. JD: > I talked to them, and I am able to at least send out email. Are you aware that if your SMTP server is on an IP in the range of addresses your ISP doles out to its private custome

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 07:50 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/17/2010 05:10 PM, JD wrote: >>On 08/17/2010 04:56 PM, Craig White wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:47 -0700, JD wrote: On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, JD wrote: >> On

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/17/2010 05:10 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 04:56 PM, Craig White wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:47 -0700, JD wrote: >>> On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 01:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 08/17/20

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:10 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 04:56 PM, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:47 -0700, JD wrote: > >> On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >>>On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 01:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 04:56 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:47 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>>On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, JD wrote: On 08/17/2010 01:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/17/2010 09:33 AM, JD wrote: >> Re: a.b.c.d

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:50 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 04:35 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 08/17/2010 02:28 PM, JD wrote: > >> So, why would any mail client/server send an email message > >> to my ip address on a port other than 25? > > They never would. > > > >> Seems that I would need to

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:47 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, JD wrote: > >>On 08/17/2010 01:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >>> On 08/17/2010 09:33 AM, JD wrote: > Re: a.b.c.d ==>valid.host.name > and valid.host.name

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 04:35 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/17/2010 02:28 PM, JD wrote: >> So, why would any mail client/server send an email message >> to my ip address on a port other than 25? > They never would. > >> Seems that I would need to configure the dydns account to >> forward the email to m

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 03:35 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, JD wrote: >>On 08/17/2010 01:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >>> On 08/17/2010 09:33 AM, JD wrote: Re: a.b.c.d ==>valid.host.name and valid.host.name ==>a.b.c.d does not seem to apply to the goog

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/17/2010 02:28 PM, JD wrote: > So, why would any mail client/server send an email message > to my ip address on a port other than 25? They never would. > Seems that I would need to configure the dydns account to > forward the email to me on that alternate port, no? Yes. I merely meant that

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/17/2010 02:25 PM, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 01:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 08/17/2010 09:33 AM, JD wrote: >>> Re: a.b.c.d ==> valid.host.name >>> and valid.host.name ==> a.b.c.d >>> does not seem to apply to the google smtp server I use for Thunderbird. >> You did your test ent

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 01:30 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/17/2010 10:09 AM, JD wrote: >> But I think at&t is blocking port 25. > Normally they will, and that's good. It prevents infected Windows > desktops from sending spam directly. > > You'll want to arrange a smart-host through which you can rout

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 01:29 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/17/2010 11:26 AM, JD wrote: >> Well, that would require that sendmail would have to listen >> on that alternate port. How is that accomplished? > That's probably a step you don't need to take. You just need your > router to forward a port oth

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 01:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/17/2010 09:33 AM, JD wrote: >> Re: a.b.c.d ==> valid.host.name >> and valid.host.name ==> a.b.c.d >> does not seem to apply to the google smtp server I use for Thunderbird. > You did your test entirely backward. You did a forward lookup

Re: Sendmail on a LAN

2010-08-17 Thread JD
On 08/17/2010 12:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, JD said: >> Well, that would require that sendmail would have to listen >> on that alternate port. How is that accomplished? > Change DaemonPortOptions. > > If you are using the .mc (recommended) way of configuring sendmail, do > som

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