Subject: Re: sendmail problems.. argh...
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 08:48:37 AKDT
Yeah, it was an MX problem. GCI never changed it when they set the DNS
up, but it's fixed now. As for the relay domains, I know there's some
stuff in there that isn't the best solution, but until I can get SSL to
work, I need them so I can send mail from work. I actually use SSH for
my enderak.com accounts, but I use my server to send from my GCI account
from work (ACS DSL connection) otherwise GCI's servers don't like that
I'm not on a GCI domain, and ACS's servers don't like that I'm not using
an ACS address..
I guess I don't quite understand what you are saying about the fully
qualified domain name though, is that different from 'enderak.com'?
Thanks for the ideas!
Justin
Matthew Schumacher wrote:
>Justin,
>
>The only file you should need to edit (other than DNS) to add a second
>domain to sendmail is your local-host-names (sendmail.cw on older
>sendmails). This tells sendmail what is in the class w or which domains are
>local and which domains would be considered a relay. The relay-domains file
>tells sendmail to allow everyone to relay for a specific domain. That
>feature is used to allow relaying for secondary MX records or proxying mail
>to another host on the trusted network.
>
>You shouldn't need to make any changes to your sendmail.cf and I would
>recommend using the m4 method and changing the sendmail.mc and compiling a
>sendmail.cf from it. While it is a little awkward at first, but I think it
>keeps the config file much more manageable.
>
>While looking at your config I would remove the domains from the access file
>because it will allow anyone who can setup their reverse DNS to any of those
>domains to relay. The last line is all you really need. I would also
>remove all of you domains from your relay-domains file because you are
>declaring them as local in your sendmail.cw. One last thing, I recommend
>that you put the fully qualified domain name in your sendmail.cw that way
>you can accept mail addressed to user@fqdn.
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>schu
>
>
>
>Justin Dieters wrote:
>
>
>
>>The free 'service' i registered my domain name (enderak.com) with a long
>>time back finally let it expire, and I bought it up. So now I have two
>>domain names, enderak.com and enderakonline.com. I set all the stuff up
>>with network solutions and GCI, and it is working as expected. They both
>>point to the same IP (static IP through GCI cable modem) and I can get
>>to my website, ssh, ping, and send mail using either address and it
>>works fine.
>>
>>What I am having trouble with is receiving mail. To update the sendmail
>>configs, I just went through the config files, and wherever I had
>>enderakonline.com I added in another line for enderak.com, and restarted
>>sendmail. I can still send mail to myself at enderakonline.com (from my
>>yahoo acct) just fine but if I try to send mail to myself at enderak.com
>>it gets returned saying:
>>
>>Message from yahoo.com.
>>Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
>>
>><enderak@enderak.com>:
>>208.138.130.82 does not like recipient.
>>Remote host said: 551 Relaying not allowed.
>>Giving up on 208.138.130.82.
>>
>>To the best of my recolection, the config files I changed are:
>>sendmail.cf, sendmail.cw, access, and relay-domains
>>If anyone wants to take a look at my config files, I copied them to:
>>http://www.enderak.com/hold/sendmail/ They should be all there, but I
>>took some stuff out, like the .db files..
>>
>>I don't know if maybe I missed/messed up a config file somewhere, or
>>perhaps GCI didn't set up my MX stuff properly, or what.. any ideas what
>>might be wrong?
>>
>>Thanks all,
>>Justin
>>
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