Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:15 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: exmh-users@redhat.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: exmh can't send while offline Message-ID: <199902130125.TAA32701@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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Have been looking for the reason sendmail 8.9.2 won't accept mail from
exmh when I'm offline (not connected to the 'net or DNS). Am getting
closer to a solution.
The default sendmail.cf generated for FreeBSD 3.0-stable contains:
# Resolve map (to check if a host exists in check_mail)
Kresolve host -a<OK> -T<TEMP>
Offline (as I am now) when I try host:
nospam: {1004} hostname
nospam.hiwaay.net
nospam: {1005} host `hostname`
Host not found, try again.
nospam: {1006}
The above correctly resolves when connected to the net.
"nospam.hiwaay.net" is in DNS as 127.0.0.1. Looked like a good hostname
to use for a dialup connection with dynamic IP address.
Using /usr/bin/mail to send mail to myself the following is logged by
sendmail:
Feb 12 18:42:44 nospam sendmail[32457]: SAA32457: from=dkelly, size=39, class=0, pri=30039, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199902130042.SAA32457@nospam.hiwaay.net>, relay=dkelly@localhost
Attempting to do the same thing with exmh 2.0.2 and nmh 1.0 (same thing
yesterday when I was using mh-6.8.4, all installed from the ports
collection):
Feb 12 18:44:39 nospam sendmail[32483]: SAA32483: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net>, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1], reject=451 <dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net>... Sender domain must resolve
Feb 12 18:44:39 nospam sendmail[32483]: SAA32483: from=<dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net>, size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
The things that are different are the relay= and from= values. Also exmh
lacks a mesgid=. Other variables are =0.
Where is the problem? What is it in the above which upsets sendmail
forcing it to apply check_mail to me? Or does /bin/mail invoke sendmail
directly while exmh makes a network connection to sendmail?
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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