From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 18:27:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236BF16A41B for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:27:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwinner@dwinner.net) Received: from outbound-mail-69.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-69.bluehost.com [69.89.21.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00FD313C4AC for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:27:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwinner@dwinner.net) Received: (qmail 14751 invoked by uid 0); 18 Oct 2007 18:27:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box122.bluehost.com) (69.89.22.122) by mailproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2007 18:27:44 -0000 Received: from [216.113.237.29] (helo=duane-winners-computer.local) by box122.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Iia5w-0004sC-BU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:27:44 -0600 Message-ID: <4717A59F.2080502@dwinner.net> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:27:43 -0400 From: Duane Winner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4716799B.5010502@dwinner.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20071017164928.0246f280@mail.computinginnovations.com> <4716977A.3080106@dwinner.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20071017185837.02498f88@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20071017185837.02498f88@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {731:box122.bluehost.com:dwinnern:dwinner.net} {sentby:smtp auth 216.113.237.29 authed with dwinner+dwinner.net} Subject: Re: sendmail problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dwinner@dwinner.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:27:46 -0000 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 06:15 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: >> Derek Ragona wrote: >> > At 04:07 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. >> >> >> >> In my /var/log/maillog, I've been seeing: >> >> >> >> sm-mta[1753]: l9H4EoAn001753: outbound-mail-10.bluehost.com >> >> [69.89.17.210] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to >> >> IPv4 >> >> >> >> I use this server to manage mailman lists, so I knew something was >> wrong >> >> when I started notice that my own list posts (using a bluehost.com >> >> account) were not showing up. >> >> So I looked in the logs and noticed the above. >> >> >> >> At first I thought it might be bluehost.com acting up again, but then >> >> tried to send mail from a gmail.com account. Same thing: >> >> >> >> sm-mta[1785]: l9H4OdFq001785: py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176] >> >> did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 >> >> >> >> >> >> It accepts fine from my company's external email server (different >> >> domain, different network), and also accepts from my att.net email >> >> account, and many others who post to my lists. >> >> >> >> I'm not sure where to even begin looking. Any help appreciated! >> >> >> >> -DW >> > >> > Are you running only IPv4? or are you running IPv6? Or both? >> >> IPv4 only. When I restart sendmail, I get the following output, which if >> I'm interpreting correctly, means that sendmail isn't going to try to >> use IPv6 when it's running: >> >> Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-mta[33703]: starting daemon (8.13.6): >> SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 >> Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-mta[33703]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >> opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol >> not supported >> Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-mta[33703]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >> opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: optional socket disabled >> Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-msp-queue[33707]: starting daemon >> (8.13.6): queueing@00:30:00 > > It looks like you are trying to run sendmail on IPv6. You can turn on > or off support for IPv6 in the DaemonPortOptions in your *.cf files in > /etc/mail. I would check those and also check your IP stack > configuration doing: > ifconfig -a Still broken; I disabled IPv6 in my cf's, and sendmail doesn't even try to listen on IPv6 now when I restart it. I don't think it did anyway before, it was just trying to but I don't have IPv6 in my stack since I disable it in the kernel config, so it just ignored ipv6 after startup. I think something else is going on. The weird thing is that it's just certain mail hosts that it's rejecting. > > -Derek > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* , and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for > their support.