where are my letters?

[litton1]

I would like to send and receive mail from my suse 9.2 box. I think sendmail is installed. And there is no firewall on that machine. The main firewall to the network has ports 110 and 25 open. If I send mail from yahoo it doesn’t land and I get the mailer demon error. If I send from the Suse computer it doesn’t get to yahoo. I use a php script to try to send mail to yahoo. I have also tried with pine. How can I test this thing (kwl down, 2 in the morning need sleep) to find out what it is not doing? Hope this is semi clear. Thx in advance T

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[litton1]

i think it might be that the suse box thinks the domain is asm.best-answer.com but it should be best-answer.com i think that showed up when i was messing with pine?

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[litton1]

but the question is what can i do about it?

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[litton1]

come on guys!! someone must know a file i can lookin to check this..think hard plz... i would really love my own email system/server.

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[JuJutsu]

Do you have that domain registered to that (SUSE's) IP address?

Have you tried creating another local user and sending e-mail to that user? If that doesn't work, sendmail is not configured properly. If you can, then the problem is external to Sendmail. You might want to inquire on the Sendmail forums for more help.



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[BIS]

litton1,

As always the first place to look would be in the log files. Dig around in /var/log - probably maillog, mail.log, messages or something similar.

 

[lgarner]

I think sendmail is installed" - check and be sure.

/var/log/maillog is the usual log for mail messages; check /etc/syslog.conf to see if yours is different.

Try sending via the mail command. Try sending to root@localhost, even.

If the domain is wrong, change it in /etc/mail/sendmain.cf. The default is computername.domain.name. Or enable masquerading.

Try manually sending messages to Yahoo and to your computer from outside. Check your MX and A records, and your PTR record in case Yahoo might block mail based on RDNS (AOL does).

 

[litton1]

big thx. i will check these tonight and get back 2 you

If the domain is wrong, change it in /etc/mail/sendmain.cf. The default is computername.domain.name.
Or enable masquerading.
Ok I will give that a look as well
Thank you all for the reply’s, I just don’t have a clue about these things.

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[litton1]

hmm this sounds a good place as any to start

Do you have that domain registered to that (SUSE's) IP address?

no. It is registered to the firewall IP which in turn forwards it (unless that what you meant?)

Have you tried creating another local user and sending e-mail to that user? If that doesn't work, sendmail is not configured properly. If you can, then the problem is external to Sendmail. You might want to inquire on the Sendmail forums for more help.

excellent i will do that


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[litton1]

Hi guys, just to finalise this thread. I am moving over to the more appropriate sendmail forum. Would have done this in first place but didn’t realize there was one
Because of your input I have now got better information to start a thread over there and thus enabling me to get better answers.
Thx for all your help


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