can send but not recieve mail...

[feeble]

I have read the man pages but cannot find the answer to my problem. I am running sendmail and can send email. The problem is when i send mail to my linuxbox it it will not recieve the e-mail. I have a dynamic ip and am using minidns.net for dynamic dns. i have my box set up with the dns name that I use from minidns. I am not sure what is wrong. I know it has to be a configuration issue but I am not sure what to do. Any info would be great.

Thanks,
Court Campbell

 

[Tedson99]

I am a bit busy but I will help you tonight (next 3 hours). Please standby for my tips! Cheers!

Tedson99

 

[RhythmAce]

Hi feeble,
I'm having the same problem. I can mail out just fine but when I try to e-mail myself from hotmail, I get the following message back:


content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;boundary="f8B4sVi02682.1000184071/nakremodeling.com"

Content-Type: text/plain

The original message was received at Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:54:30 -0700
from f208.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.208]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<john@nakremodeling.com>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)
john
(reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)
(expanded from: <john@nakremodeling.com>)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.1.1 john... User unknown
550 5.1.1 <john@nakremodeling.com>... User unknown



Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; nakremodeling.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; f208.law10.hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:54:30 -0700

Final-Recipient: RFC822; john@nakremodeling.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 550 5.1.1 User unknown
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:54:31 -0700

Final-Recipient: RFC822; john@nakremodeling.com
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; john@nakremodeling.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 550 5.1.1 User unknown
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:54:31 -0700

The mail is finding my server but it isn't finding me. I checked my mail logs and they give the same reason for rejecting the mail. I hope somebody out there can set us wise. I've been messing with this for months and checked every document on the internet and the best answer so far is &quot;it has to be a typo somewhere&quot;. I ain't buyin' it - I can spell my own name for cryin' out loud. If anybody has incoming mail working, can they give us a few things we can check. I'm down to my last nerve on this one. Heck, I'm even starting to think &quot;qmail&quot;.

 

[feeble]

I to have heard many resolutions to my problem. have heard it was a dns issue. I have heard it had to do with the sendmail.cf file where i needed to change the 127.0.0.1 to my internal ip address. So I am running named and have changed the cf file a few times. I am not sure what is going on, the technical documentation isn't really that helpful. I just don't get it. I am actually suprised there is not a large faq sheet on this issue on the net. But believe me when this is finally resolved I will be posting this on the net in many places.

As a side note I want to thank all the folks who have helped me and still are trying. I understand it's hard to help someone troubleshoot a machine without knowing all the variables involved. I really just want to thank all the folks in the newsgroups, bbs, forums, etc.

Thanks,
Court Campbell

 

[feeble]

ok I got it you need to set up a relay for your domain in /etc/mail/access. then you need to makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access.

 

[RhythmAce]

To my knowledge, that file is for the domains or hosts you will let pass mail through your server but I thought , what the heck and I tried it but no change so I'll keep digging.
Does that mean you can get mail now? I can only get mail for &quot;root&quot;. I don't know why it doesn't see any other users. What's that? Do I hear somebody saying qmail? )

 

[feeble]

RhythmAce I to had this problem. I had to delete myself and add myself as a new user again before I could recieve mail for users that I had added. I was thinking it was a permission thing, but I didn't look into it. Try adding a new user and seeing if the mail works.

 

[RhythmAce]

IT WORKED!!!

feeble the ALL WISE, the ALL KNOWING. Shrines, ney, cities shall be built in your honor. Nations for generation upon generation shall sing your praises. I have tried everything under the sun and never thought of recreating my account. Thanx a million.

 

[feeble]

Thanks RA,

It really was just a lot of digging and some intuition really. I am just glad to hear we were able to solve our problem. I am going to be posting a super non-technical doc on basic sendmail setup. I really couldn't believe how long and tha man hours involved in troubleshooting this problem. I love Linux, but I wish we could talk less tech and more human.