sendmail UNIX to NT

[Richard Darling]

just saw Veronica's posting and made the following entries on my L1000:

# vi sendmail.cf
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS server1

# vi hosts
192.nnn.nnn.nnn server1

# ping server1


root:L1000>:mailx -s "test" rdarling@southwickclothing.com
test email
EOT

#

No email received...what am I missing? Thanks...

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

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

Try now.

[Richard Darling]

Carlos,
Thanks for the information...I forgot about that. Tested it again, but, unfortunately, it still isn't working...
Richard

[Kevin Wright]

try sendmail -v and see what is happenning..is the DS or smart server being recognized, is it accepting emails?

[Richard Darling]

This is the message I receive when I use the -v flag:
# sendmail -v "test" rdarling@southwickclothing.com
test... User unknown
rdarling@southwickclothing.com... southwickclothing.com: Name server timeout
rdarling@southwickclothing.com... Transient parse error -- message queued for fu
ture delivery
test
rdarling@southwickclothing.com... queued
/dead.letter... cannot open: Permission denied
root... Connecting to local...
root... Sent

???? Thanks...Richard

[Kevin Wright]

try it like this
login as root
#sendmail -v rdarling@southwick.com #hit return
type..testing # hit return
. #enter a period and hit return

[Richard Darling]

tried it:

# sendmail -v rdarling@southwickclothing.com
rdarling@southwickclothing.com... southwickclothing.com: Name server timeout
rdarling@southwickclothing.com... Transient parse error -- message queued for fu
ture delivery
...testing
.
rdarling@southwickclothing.com... queued

# mailx
No mail for root

didn't get any mail, but no error messages to root...

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,
if use the NT as relay server then I think the NT will have to give "permission" to the unix box for this.

you could try to mail to the IP address: mailx user@11.11.111.11, and see if this is handled OK

Another thing to check is the mail log : /var/adm/syslog/mail.log, and check if the mail is sent OK.

good luck,
Thierry.

[Kevin Wright]

do you have a resolv.conf file? if so, rename it, and restart sendmail. check your /etc/nsswitch file for the line with hosts, put files first. There have been a few interesting discussions here lately about how sendmail operates depending on whether you are using DNS or not. I would guess since you are trying to use the DS macro, you are not using DNS right. It seems like your server cannot find the MX record to use..try
nslookup
>set type=mx
>southwickclothing.com
and see what you get..
there are several rules you can define in sendmail.cf to use MX records..setting this one could help
O FallbackMXhost=fall.back.host.net
also you could try these to see if your hostname and all is ok.
sendmail -d0.1
sendmail -d0.15

[Andreas Garbe]

Hi Richard,

attach a sendmail.cf (sendmail.cf.Z) unix compress file.

i think this sendmail.cf is perfekt for you, pleas change the entry for Dj and DS.

rgds
Andreas

[Tracey]

I agree with Thierry, I had to get my Exchange server admin to add my servers fully qualified domain to their "aprroved" list before it would deliver.

[Richard Darling]

Thanks for the suggestions...haven't had to work with sendmail. Attached is the sendmail file. Any ideas appreciated...
Richard

[Richard Darling]

Here is the message I received...
From MAILER-DAEMON Thu May 10 19:47:39 EDT 2001
Received: from localhost (localhost)
by L1000. (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) with internal id TAA29219;
Thu, 10 May 2001 19:47:39 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:47:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
Message-Id: <200105102347.TAA29219@L1000.>
To: root
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="TAA29219.989538459/L1000."
Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout)
Status: RO


--TAA29219.989538459/L1000.
**********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**********************************************

The original message was received at Thu, 10 May 2001 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
from root@localhost

----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
rdarling@southwickclothing.com

----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 rdarling@southwickclothing.com... southwickclothing.com: Name server timeout
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

--TAA29219.989538459/L1000.
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; L1000.
Arrival-Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; rdarling@southwickclothing.com
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.3
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:47:39 -0400 (EDT)
Will-Retry-Until: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:47:39 -0400 (EDT)
Will-Retry-Until: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT)

--TAA29219.989538459/L1000.
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path:
Received: (from root@localhost)
by L1000. (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) id PAA26605;
Thu, 10 May 2001 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: root
Message-Id: <200105101928.PAA26605@L1000.>

test

--TAA29219.989538459/L1000.--

Can anyone recommend a GOD book on sendmail? Thanks...RD

[Pedro Sousa]

Hi Richard,
I cannot open your file!
But, in your first post, you wrote: "DS server1"
You need to change it to: "DSserver1"
If you have the space you wont get your emails delivered.
good luck.

[Richard Darling]

Thanks Pedro, there was a space...fixed it...still not working.
I have attached the file again

[Mark Vollmers]

Richard-

the attachment still does not want to open. Says the link is bad. Can you paste it into a message?

Mark

[Richard Darling]

that file I just put out still won't open...here it is uncompressed...

[Richard Darling]

That was can anyone recommend a "GOOD" book, not a GOD book on sendmail?...haven't go to the point of invoking him on this issue... yet...


RD

[Kevin Wright]

the bat book by O'reily is the probably the best book out there.
Is nslookup returning your mx record? If not, you'll never get sendmail to work. Name server TO seems like you got DNS problems on this host.
Do you have a resolv.conf file??

[Pedro Sousa]

from the online docs (www.docs.hp.com)
http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/B2355-90147_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/00/00/35-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90147/00/00/35-toc.html&searchterms=sendmail&queryid=20010511-104658
I think it's a good reference.

[John Love_3]

You may want to make sure your /etc/nsswitch.conf file is using DNS and FILES.
Check the file it should have something like this:

hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=continue] files [NOTFOUND=return]

You could have files first then DNS, but make sure it doesn't [NOTFOUND=return] before DNS.

I had this problem onece. Took me a long time to find it.
Hope this does it.

John

[Richard Darling]

John, I don't have an nsswitch.conf file - don't use DNS
Thanks anyways...
Richard

[Richard Darling]

Pedro, thanks...Richard

[someone_4]

what ver. of sendmail are you using?

[Paul T. Green]

Richard, I had the same event happen to me when I first configured my HP-UX boxes to e-mail my desktop. In this case the mail gateway had to allow e-mails comming from my boxes 'through' the gateway to the internet and then back through the gateway back into our internal mail server. This was done by adding my *DM* line in the sendmail.cf file. Next, the DS macro- has to point to your mail-gateway or mail proxy server. If this doesn't happen, ***you will never get mail out***.

by the way the sendmail book is /-way too complicated-\ to try and figure out. Open a software call, and the ITRC will walk you though the process once your mail gateway is configured. I could also be wrong...