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Subject:    [novalug] Re: sendmail on Fedora Core 2
From:       Chris Gordon <chris () linux-dr ! net>
Date:       2004-06-25 2:19:55
Message-ID: 1088129995.5915.24.camel () goblin ! theory14 ! net
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Well even though I didn't see any response to my issue, I finally
figured it out.  I'm posting this "solution" in case anyone else
encounters similar problems.

It turns out that FC2 puts the hostname in /etc/hosts for the 127.0.0.1
in addition to localhost for that address.  Maybe this is "normal" and
I've forgotten that I had fixed it long ago.  Removing the hostname from
the 127.0.0.1 entry and creating a new one with the real IP and the
hostname did the trick.  I restarted sendmail and all worked again.  

Chris

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 22:27, Chris Gordon wrote:
> I've just upgraded a couple of boxes to FC2 and am having some strange
> sendmail issues.  My setup is that I have a central mail server and I
> setup my other machines to forward mail to that central machine.  This
> forwarding is for local mail (/etc/aliases) and for mail bound for the
> net (smarthost).
> 
> Everything worked fine until the FC2 upgrade.  Setting the /etc/aliases
> and smarthost directive seem to not do what I need.  I get the following
> errors:
> 
> On the mail server that is supposed to receive all of my mail:
> 
> Jun 21 21:54:02 psyche sendmail[17609]: i5M1s25T017609:
> hades.theory14.net [192.168.1.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN
> during connection to MTA
> 
> This, from what I understand, shows that the client, hades, makes a
> connections on 25/tcp but sends nothing and tears down the connection.
> 
> On the client trying to send the mail, I get (/var/log/maillog) the
> following.  I'm assuming that the problem is really in the third error
> (nfig error: mail loops back to me) or possibly in that it is trying to
> send as root@localhost.localdomain (yes the mail was from root).  Even
> setting the various "masquerade as" options didn't seem to help.  Any
> ideas?
> 
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14842]: i5M2Dmfl014842:
> from=<root@localhost.localdomain>, size=355, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200406220213.i5M2Dm8j014841@localhost.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=oger [127.0.0.1]
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14841]: i5M2Dm8j014841: to=csgordon,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay,
> pri=30043, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (i5M2Dmfl014842 Message accepted for delivery)
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dmfl014842: SYSERR(root):
> psyche.theory14.net. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dmfl014842:
> to=csgordon@psyche.theory14.net, ctladdr=<root@localhost.localdomain>
> (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30581,
> relay=psyche.theory14.net. [192.168.1.2], dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local
> configuration error
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dmfl014842: i5M2Dnfl014843:
> DSN: Local configuration error
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dnfl014843:
> to=csgordon@psyche.theory14.net, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=31605, relay=psyche.theory14.net., dsn=5.3.5,
> stat=Local configuration error
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dnfl014843: i5M2Dnfm014843:
> return to sender: Local configuration error
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dnfm014843:
> to=csgordon@psyche.theory14.net, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=esmtp, pri=32629, relay=psyche.theory14.net., dsn=5.3.5,
> stat=Local configuration error
> 
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dnfl014843: Losing
> ./qfi5M2Dnfl014843: savemail panic
> Jun 21 22:13:49 oger sendmail[14843]: i5M2Dnfl014843: SYSERR(root):
> savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
> 
> 
> Chris
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