From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 15:40:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965B437B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net [65.242.152.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECFB43E7B for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net) Received: by sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 77982107A3; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:40:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:40:37 -0400 From: Jim Brown To: David Ouyang Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My sendmail server won't recive mail Message-ID: <20020828224037.GA78413@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> References: <20020828222125.34883.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020828222125.34883.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Ouyang [2002-08-28 18:21]: > I just install FreeBSD 4.6, I use the default sendmail > configration, I can send mail, but can not recive, > (I already point DNS MX record to this server), > can anybody tell me what else I have to do to make it > work. > What is the Fully Qualified hostname? Do you control the DNS server? Do you have a remote shell account that you can run dig @your.name.server.here your.hostname.here MX Next, try to telnet to port 25 and run the SMTP exchange by hand: (helo, mail from: rcpt to: data) If no joy, Run tcpdump -b -vvv -x -X -s 1000 port 53 and repeat the above mail check. This should get you started... HTH, jpb === > Thanks in advance. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > http://finance.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message