From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 15: 7:44 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 5AAF037B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEB843E6A for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (0f4a8a066cbe2071d81e7886d3a794b0@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g82M9H2e066403; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g82M9H2R066402; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:09:17 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Lord Raiden Cc: Adam Weinberger , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ok, what did I break this time?? Message-ID: <20020902220917.GQ56964@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , Lord Raiden , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.2.0.58.20020902150240.009c8ac0@pop.voyager.net> <4.2.0.58.20020902150240.009c8ac0@pop.voyager.net> <4.2.0.58.20020902180003.009cbeb0@pop.voyager.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020902180003.009cbeb0@pop.voyager.net> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 >> (09.02.2002 @ 1502 PST): Lord Raiden said, in 1.0K: << > >second of all, are you getting errors when sending mail TO the box, or > >THROUGH the box? > > Both. But not from the box. So if I'm logged in locally, I can > send fine, same if I telnet to the IP of the machine and localhost when > sending mail from that machine. Anything outside just outright gets > blocked. what kind of bounce message do you get when sending mail to, say, root@the.b0rked.box? if sending mail TO the machine gives you a relaying denied error, then sendmail can't figure out its hostname. > Just changed the version number for sendmail.cf because of a > problem with aliases. But this existed evidently before I worked with the > aliases, since this was reported to me a while back. I just haven't had > time to get around to fixing it since it's a low use server. i'm a bit mystified as to what you fixed by changing the .cf version number... well, if your domain name is mydomain.com, you can try adding: Dj$w.mydomain.com to your sendmail.cf file. other than that: any host to which you agree to relay should be listed in /etc/mail/relay-domains. if you can't send mail TO the machine, then you have a whole new set of problems. i'm curious as to the bounce message you're getting when sending a letter TO the box. -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message