complete rookie sendmail question

[Ken Hawkins]

first.... thank you all for the invaluable amount of info and resorses
that flow through this mail list.. I hope to one day contribute more
than I take away.

that said This is what is happening. I have a webserver 'web1.foo.com'
that is not the mailserver for foo.com (that is mail.foo.com).
/var/log/maillog has errors like:

Feb 25 07:34:09 web1 sm-mta[98913]: j1PDTdTd098790:
to=<bar@somedomain.com>, ctladdr=<foo@web1.foo.com> (1002/1002),
delay=00:04:30, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=120427,
relay=mail.foo.com. [64.73.41.34], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
refused by mail.foo.com.

as well I am seeing:

Feb 25 00:10:56 web1 sm-mta[88984]: j1P1HLV8081785:
to=<foo@somedomain.com>, ctladdr=<www@web1.foo.com> (80/80),
delay=04:53:35, xd
elay=00:00:06, mailer=esmtp, pri=930762, relay=somedomain.com.
[216.166.63.26], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender
addre
ss [email]www@web1.foo.com[/email] does not resolve

I beleive this is because the ctladdr should be [email]foo@foo.com[/email] and not
[email]foo@web1.foo.com[/email]

how can i configure sendmail for send out mail as foo.com and NOT
web1.foo.com? is this possible?

am I barking up the wrong tree here to find out why I am not able to
send mail out...

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-02-25 11:03, Ken Hawkins <ken@rosewoodblues.com> wrote:

> first.... thank you all for the invaluable amount of info and
> resorses that flow through this mail list.. I hope to one day
> contribute more than I take away.
>
> that said This is what is happening. I have a webserver
> 'web1.foo.com' that is not the mailserver for foo.com (that is
> mail.foo.com). /var/log/maillog has errors like:
>
> Feb 25 07:34:09 web1 sm-mta[98913]: j1PDTdTd098790:
> to=<bar@somedomain.com>, ctladdr=<foo@web1.foo.com> (1002/1002),
> delay=00:04:30, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=120427,
> relay=mail.foo.com. [64.73.41.34], dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mail.foo.com.

Is mail.foo.com running an MTA?

Does the setup of the MTA, the firewall, whatever else runs on
mail.foo.com allow connections from your web1.foo.com host?

> how can i configure sendmail for send out mail as foo.com and NOT
> web1.foo.com? is this possible?

This is probably a job of the MTA running on mail.foo.com, which
should probably have the option:

MASQUERADE_AS(`foo.com')
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`foo.com')

If it doesn't already, that is. Handling the masquerading of outgoing
email in one central place (the MTA setup of mail.foo.com) is much
preferable, since you only have to update ONE place whenever you feel
like changing the MASQUERADE_AS option.

- Giorgos

[Ken Hawkins]

Found out it was a firewall issue and that is open now. though my
problem has gone from connection refused to:
Feb 27 08:22:04 web1 sendmail[85505]: j1MIj4DI065443: <...>
delay=4+19:37:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=22920813,
relay=bhost1.broadjam.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed
out with bhost1.broadjam.net.

is there a timeout that I can set in sendmail to set a longer wait time
on this?

my flags in my rc.conf are:

sendmail_enable="YES"
sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory.

I am in a bit of a panic because my mail queue is starting to fill up
and I need to get these messages out....

thanks,
ken;
On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2005-02-25 11:03, Ken Hawkins <ken@rosewoodblues.com> wrote:

>> first.... thank you all for the invaluable amount of info and
>> resorses that flow through this mail list.. I hope to one day
>> contribute more than I take away.
>>
>> that said This is what is happening. I have a webserver
>> 'web1.foo.com' that is not the mailserver for foo.com (that is
>> mail.foo.com). /var/log/maillog has errors like:
>>
>> Feb 25 07:34:09 web1 sm-mta[98913]: j1PDTdTd098790:
>> to=<bar@somedomain.com>, ctladdr=<foo@web1.foo.com> (1002/1002),
>> delay=00:04:30, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=120427,
>> relay=mail.foo.com. [64.73.41.34], dsn=4.0.0,
>> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mail.foo.com.

>
> Is mail.foo.com running an MTA?
>
> Does the setup of the MTA, the firewall, whatever else runs on
> mail.foo.com allow connections from your web1.foo.com host?
>

>> how can i configure sendmail for send out mail as foo.com and NOT
>> web1.foo.com? is this possible?

>
> This is probably a job of the MTA running on mail.foo.com, which
> should probably have the option:
>
> MASQUERADE_AS(`foo.com')
> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`foo.com')
>
> If it doesn't already, that is. Handling the masquerading of outgoing
> email in one central place (the MTA setup of mail.foo.com) is much
> preferable, since you only have to update ONE place whenever you feel
> like changing the MASQUERADE_AS option.
>
> - Giorgos
>
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