Relaying Denied sendmail error after reboots

[Ken Penland_1]

Ok folks, I am stumped...

We have an HPUX 11.00 system, whenever it reboots, sendmail starts up, stays running, but no longer accepts email. we get errors in the log that look like:

Apr 13 08:03:36 myhp sendmail[24057]: i3DC3a024057: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=, relay=myntserver.foo.bar [127.0.99.33], reject=550 5.7.1 ... Relaying denied

to fix this, all it takes is a simple:

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop and then start

Now, I checked the startup scripts:

# ll /sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21 Oct 31 2002 /sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail -> /sbin/init.d/sendmail

# ll /sbin/init.d/sendmail
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 42 Jun 24 2003 /sbin/init.d/sendmail -> /usr/contrib/sendmail/sbin/init.d/sendmail

which is the same as all our other systems that dont have a problem...

any ideas on what I should check next?

[harry d brown jr]

It sounds like a timing issue between when sendmail starts and when some of your other network services start (or simply a sendmail.cf config?). Check the configuration of this server with your others for how DNS is configured. Also compare the other network services with the other servers. Also check your sendmail.cf files. This might also help (http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:ABMwOGIDBtoJ:www.tek-tips.com/gpviewthread.cfm/qid/622621/pid/14/lev2/3/lev3/15+%2B%22reject%3D550+%22+%2Bsendmail+%2Breboot&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)


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harry

[jpcast_real]

I agree with Harry . It seems that any other network service has had some problems during the startup and sendmail has not been able to startup correctly . Sendmail has some Macros which gets automatically from the system . If one of the services is not up , sendmail probably can not qualify correctly its system Macros.. To test sendmail Macros this is an example:

Dartanan:/var/adm/syslog> sendmail -bt C21.12
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter

> $j
dartanan.nat.com
> $w
Dartanan
>

You can find more information in www.sendmail.org

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Ken,

Try this link from ITRC,

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&mode=text&searchString=check_rcpt+Relaying+denied&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&search.x=44&search.y=8

The doc id is UMAILKBRC00011926

This is asking to load a patch PHNE_25183.

Hope this helps.

Regds