topic Re: sendmail address issue in Operating System - Linux

sendmail address issue

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:45:30 GMT

Hi there --

The root user on our sendmail 8.13 server appears to have its e-mail address doubled up, and this is causing the following error message to occur:

Sender address rejected: Domain not found ahkaplan@partners.org... Deferred: 450

What file(s) do I need to modify to correct this problem? Thanks.

Re: sendmail address issue

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:17:35 GMT

The RELAY server is rejecting the mail because the domain does not have or cannot find a DNS server.

If this domain exists and has a DNS server, ensure that the RELAY server can query that DNS server.

Another option is to disable the rejection of mails coming from unknown domains (not recommended).

In your sendmail.mc configure:

FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dns

Create the new cf file and restart sendmail.

Re: sendmail address issue

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:52:07 GMT

I added another domain to the RELAY list and when I send an email via a GUI client, ie: Eudora or Webmin, the messages gets through both ways without a problem.

The issue now appears to be exclusively with the command prompt. Specifically, if I run the command:

mail < file

The error that I mentioned in the original question appears.

Re: sendmail address issue

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:13:00 GMT

When you send a mail from the command line, the configuration that applies to the outgoing mail is located in /etc/mail/submit.cf

Edit the File and check this line:

# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
#Dj$w.Foo.COM

Chage it to this:

# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
Djyourdomain.com

For example:

# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
Djhp.com

To set the domain to be hp.com.

Re: sendmail address issue

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:40:01 GMT

Hi there -

I made the change you suggested to the /etc/mail/submit.cf, and restarted sendmail to have the change go into effect. I tried sending a file via the command prompt mail, but got an error message complaining about the syntax of the line that I had modified. I changed the submit.cf file back to its original format.

The syntax that I used was the following:

.mgh.harvard.edu

What would be my next step?

Re: sendmail address issue

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:29:00 GMT

One slight correction to my previous e-mail. The syntax of the line that I changed read:

mgh.harvard.edu

NOT
.mgh.harvard.edu

Sorry about the confusion.

Re: sendmail address issue

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:52:12 GMT

Have you configured in this way?

Djmgh.harvard.edu

I test on my systems and no errors reported.

Re: sendmail address issue

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:08:03 GMT

Hi there --

The edition of the Dj prefix to the mgh.harvard.edu seemed to work.

Just out of curiosity, what does the Dj prefix mean and signify? Thanks.

Re: sendmail address issue

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:22:32 GMT

It's a sendmail parameter that defines (D) the domain (j) variables of the configuration file.

See also:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28