Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-31 Thread Hiisi
ma, 2010-11-01 kello 01:54 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: > Well, the error message said "temporary" failure, with a "deferred" > status of the queue. Once the problem goes away, it can retry. Or may > just keep retrying, anyway. > > The obvious question occurs: Had you restarted the mailserver during >

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-31 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Saturday, October 30, 2010 22:30:40 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 10/30/2010 06:16 PM, Hiisi Troll wrote: > > In the provided sendmail.mc file there's an option: > > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.direct.ru')dnl I thought it relays all > > my outgoing mail to ISP smtp server. Or am I wrong here? >

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:42 +0300, Hiisi wrote: > Despite it didn't helped immediately, the problem is gone now. I don't > know what caused it because neither me nor ISP people did nothing to > it at that moment. Strangely, mail queue released and all letters hit > the rcpt to address. Well, the e

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-31 Thread Hiisi
su, 2010-10-31 kello 17:47 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: <--SNIP--> > > If you cannot set your own reverse DNS, you'll have to ask your ISP (or > mail host) to set it for you. If they cannot, you're stuck. > <--SNIP--> > > Thank you for clarification, Tim! Your responses are always explain the basics

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-31 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 02:16 +0400, Hiisi Troll wrote: > In the provided sendmail.mc file there's an option: > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.direct.ru')dnl > I thought it relays all my outgoing mail to ISP smtp server. Or am I > wrong here? The smart host would be the name of the ISP's mail server. I

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-30 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 10/30/2010 06:16 PM, Hiisi Troll wrote: > In the provided sendmail.mc file there's an option: > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.direct.ru')dnl > I thought it relays all my outgoing mail to ISP smtp server. Or am I > wrong here? Try putting the smtp machine name between square brackets: define(`SMAR

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-30 Thread Hiisi Troll
la, 2010-10-30 kello 15:56 -0600, Frank Cox kirjoitti: > On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 01:44 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > > However it's impossible to send messages from this machine to the > > outside world. > > because > > > My ISP rejects all outgoing connections to port 25 except to their own > > smtp-server

Re: another DNS problem

2010-10-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 01:44 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > However it's impossible to send messages from this machine to the > outside world. because > My ISP rejects all outgoing connections to port 25 except to their own > smtp-server (smtp.direct.ru). -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www

another DNS problem

2010-10-30 Thread Hiisi
Hi, list! I'm trying to configure my system as a mail server. It's f12. My ISP provides me with a static IP address and I've binded domain name to it (kello.ru) I have sendmail installed and can successfully send messages from remote hosts to users on this machine (i.e. to r...@kello.ru). However i