Help with Internet Mail
vel...@ns.net
and Mail server, but are having a little bit of difficulty.
I think I've got the DNS working properly...I haven't found a domain we couldn't
connect to yet.
However, we are having a lot of difficulty getting mail out/in to a few domains.
I've set up the machine so users can connect via POP3. When the mail is
attempted to be sent out by the Sun Machine (for example to aol.com) it fails
and is returned by the Mailer-Daemon (Cannot send message for 3 days).
Other failed domains include: everywhere.com, compuserve.com.
Transcript of Session shows differing mesages:
250 mailhost via ether... 250 Deferred
or
421 compuserve.com: Connection refused by compuserve.com
It's seems we must be doing something wrong on our end.
Any suggestions including online or paper resources would be most appreciated!
Thanks
Jon Velasco (vel...@ns.net)
Alan L. Larson
I think it has something to do with the sendmail.cf configuration.
I've noticed that the domains we cannot get to do not have address records in the DNS but they do
hav MX records.
So, the questions are: what is missing from the sendmail.cf to tell it to use the MX record, and,
which mailer should we use?...I've tried uucp, smartuucp, ddn, and ether.
Anyone out there know what's going on?
Thanks,
Alan Larson
PageOne Associates
Luc I. Suryo
: We have a Sun Sparc5 and are attempting to use it as our Internet DNS, WWW,
: and Mail server, but are having a little bit of difficulty.
: I think I've got the DNS working properly...I haven't found a domain we couldn't
: connect to yet.
: However, we are having a lot of difficulty getting mail out/in to a few domains.
: I've set up the machine so users can connect via POP3. When the mail is
: attempted to be sent out by the Sun Machine (for example to aol.com) it fails
: and is returned by the Mailer-Daemon (Cannot send message for 3 days).
: Other failed domains include: everywhere.com, compuserve.com.
: Transcript of Session shows differing mesages:
: 250 mailhost via ether... 250 Deferred
: or
: 421 compuserve.com: Connection refused by compuserve.com
: It's seems we must be doing something wrong on our end.
: Any suggestions including online or paper resources would be most appreciated!
Hi,
Which OS are we talking about here? SunOS 4.1.X or Solaris 2.X.
In case of Solaris < 2.5 check /usr/lib/sendmail.mx
do a mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.nomx
mv /usr/lib/sendmail.mx /usr/lib/sendmail
be sure that the permission is 4551.
In the other hand you may better off with Berkeley's sendmail 8.7.5
Hope this may help.
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Kind regards,
Luc
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Thomas Kaiser
> and is returned by the Mailer-Daemon (Cannot send message for 3 days).
> Other failed domains include: everywhere.com, compuserve.com.
> Any suggestions including online or paper resources would be most appreciated!
I guess your sendmail doesn't care about MX records. You should configure
your sendmail to enquire DNS.
As a paper resource I would recommend "sendmail" from O'Reilly.