can not send email to name@cluster_name.com

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

I checked in /etc/mail/ and found that there is no file named "access" on either server
(that's part of the two node cluster).

I was also told that sending mail for the cluster name as part of the domain name used to work. Not sure what has changed.
AFAIK nothing has changed in regards to sendmail configuration files. I checked our other HPUX (2 node) cluster that also runs OVO and there are no /etc/mail/access files either.

10 points to any good answers or ideas.
TIA, Gino

[Naveej.K.A]

hi,
If the message has been accepted for delivery, and the mailq is empty the mail is delivered....

Please check the file ovonysg.tfn.com:/var/mail/oracle and see whether the mail has arrived

regds
Naveej

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

Naveej:

When I send email from MS Outlook using the
address: "oracle@ovonysg.tfn.com" it fails with these error messages in returned mail.

The original message was received at Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:36:05 -0400 (EDT) from tfsmamsg10.tfn.com [164.179.16.12]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
(reason: 550 ... Relaying denied)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to ovonysg.tfn.com.:
>>> RCPT To: NOTIFY=FAILURE,DELAY
<<< 550 ... Relaying denied
550 5.1.1 ... User unknown

10 points to any good answers or ideas.
TIA, Gino

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

Geoff/Steven:

FYI: There is no /etc/mail/access file
on either server. I don't believe there ever was one.

Does the issue that we're having point to a relaying problem? If so then I'll need to contact our Exchange/Sendmail group to have them look at the problem on there end.

10 points to any good answers or ideas.
TIA, Gino

[Naveej.K.A]

hi,

is the /etc/mail/aliases file setup?

regds
naveej

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

Naveej: Yes, the /etc/mail/aliases is setup.

10 points to any good answers or ideas.
TIA, Gino

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Gino,

I didn't go through the responses so you can ignore this post if this solution is already given.

Make sure you have /etc/mail/sendmail.cw setup with ovonysg.tftn.com on both nodes of the cluster. The hostnames in this file will be recognized as local and hence sendmail will not think that it is being asked to relay.

-Sri

[Naveej.K.A]

hi,

or setup the acess file which says your localhost is the relay server

in /etc/mail/access

localhost RELAY
ovonysg.tfn.com RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY

regds
Naveej

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

I resolved the problem. Here's what I did.

I updated the /etc/mail/sendmail.cw file on
both nodes (that are in the cluster) and I just added the FQDN of the cluster hostname as the last line in the file. I then restarted the sendmail process on both nodes and now it works fine.

Thank you to everyone for all your help!
Gino