sendmail not working (used to work...)

[Anshumali]

To see whether its appending the DNS name in RCPT TO, you can use:
sendmail -v -d7.99 -d38.9 user_name@domain.com
It should be visible there in my opinion. From here, you can get the clue to fix it.

[tom_2010]

Anshumali,

Thank you very much for the script.
Though I run the given script, I'm not clear if sendmail appends domain name etc.

Below is a part of sendmail log.
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>>> EHLO myserver.com
250-mailserver.com Hello [xx.xxx.xx.xx]
250-TURN
250-SIZE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8bitmime
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250-VRFY
250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-X-EXPS=LOGIN
250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-X-LINK2STATE
250-XEXCH50
250 OK
>>> MAIL From:
250 2.1.0 wwwww@myserver.com....Sender OK
>>> RCPT To:
250 2.1.5 aaaaa@bbbbb.com.xxxxx.zzzzz.com
>>> DATA
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I just want sendmail not to put xxxxx.zzzzz.com after aaaaa@bbbbb.com in RCPT To field. Everything looks OK except RCPT To field.

Would you pls give me a clue to make this work?

[Anshumali]

whats coming above ">>> EHLO myserver.com"
May be there is a clue how its appending. Would you be able to paste that, espcially where its resolving the names and domains....
Is there anything other layer, like spam filters etc....

[tom_2010]

Anshumali,

Thanks for advice.
Here is what i get.

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sendmail -v -d7.99 -d38.9 user_name@domain.com
seq_map_parse(aliases.files, )
map_init(sequence:aliases.files, NULL, 0)
sequence:aliases.files NULL: valid
map_init(implicit:Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 0)
wrong pass (pass = 0, rebuildable = 1)
map_init(host:host, NULL, 0)
host:host NULL: valid
map_init(switch:aliases, aliases, 0)
switch_map_open(aliases, aliases, 0)
map_stack[0] = sequence:aliases.files
switch:aliases aliases: valid
map_init(dequote:dequote, NULL, 0)
dequote:dequote NULL: valid
map_init(sequence:aliases.files, NULL, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
map_init(implicit:Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 1)
impl_map_open(Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 0)
hash_map_open(Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 0)
implicit:Alias0 /etc/mail/aliases: valid
map_init(host:host, NULL, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
map_init(switch:aliases, aliases, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
map_init(dequote:dequote, NULL, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
queuename: trying "qfNAA25807"
queuename: assigned id NAA25807, env=40019f38
lockfd= 4: fl=0x1, mode=100600: size=0
queuename: xfNAA25807
queuename: dfNAA25807
queuename: tfNAA25807
user_name@domain.com... Connecting to [xx.xxx.xxx.x] via relay...
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It looks like sendmail is looking at aliases file in /etc/mail. I dont think aliases file relates to this issue but let me paste contents of aliases file just for info.

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# Alias for mailer daemon
MAILER-DAEMON : root

# RFC 822 requires that every host have a mail address "postmaster"
postmaster : root

# Aliases to handle mail to msgs and news
nobody : /dev/null

# System Admistration aliases
operator : root
uucp : root
daemon : root

# Ftp maintainer.
ftp-bugs : root

# Local aliases
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Hope you can find something from the above.
Let me know if more details are required.

BTW, when i directly telnet to mail server and sends e-mail thru SMTP conversation, it works fine and RCPT TO address does not have duplicated host name. Is it because i directly input recipient address?

[tom_2010]

Hi all.

Problem seems to be (temporalily) fixed by adding # to
R$* < @ $* $~P > $* $: $1 < @ $[ $2 $3 $] > $4 in sendmail.cf's ruleset 96.

I know this is just a workaround and still need to work on this issue, but now sendmail functions started to work properly.

I really appreciate everyone's replies.

[tom_2010]

Found workaround so this thread is closed.