Forum OpenACS Q&A: sendmail problem with 8.0

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1: sendmail problem with 8.0
Posted by David Kuczek on 01/14/03 03:06 PM
Luckily I am almost done porting my 3.2.5 system from rh6.2 to 8.0... The only thing that doesn't seem to work is sendmail...

Whenever I want to send a mail via oacs I am being shown the error message:

Expected a 250 status line; got: 501 5.0.0 Invalid domain name

I already checked /etc/sysconifg/network (by the way is HOSTNAME supposed to be mysite.com oder just mysite?) and it looks okay...

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME="MySite.com"
GATEWAY="MyIP"
GATEWAYDEV="eth0"
FORWARD_IPV4="yes"

Anything else I might have missed???

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2: Re: sendmail problem with 8.0 (response to 1)
Posted by Jeff Davis on 01/14/03 03:17 PM
It's probably a from address which is broken.  One common
mistake is to have the server name with the port in the
from address, which will bomb.  You could take a look in the
MTA log and check that you don't have an address like
webmaster@localhost:8080 or @myhost.com:8080 in there.
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3: Re: sendmail problem with 8.0 (response to 1)
Posted by David Kuczek on 01/14/03 04:28 PM
Hello Jeff,

I received the following message in my maillog file:

Jan 14 16:30:07 arasis sendmail[1214]: h0EFU7ws001214: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

I have no real experience with sendmail... on 6.2 it worked without problems 😟

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4: Re: sendmail problem with 8.0 (response to 1)
Posted by David Kuczek on 01/14/03 05:11 PM
Strangely I didn't have sendmail-devel-8.12.5-7 and sendmail-cf-8.12.5-7 installed from the very beginning. I just had sendmail-8.12.5-7 installed.... Now everything is installed, but the following error occurs: "sendmail panic" sounds funny 😊

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Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LG001878: from=root@arasis.de, size=346, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<mailto:200301141611.h0EGB6LG001878@arasis.de>, relay=root@localhost
Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LG001878: to=david@kuczek.de, ctladdr=root@arasis.de (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30198, relay=localhost.de. [212.202.26.68], dsn=5.7.1, stat=User unknown
Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LG001878: h0EGB6LH001878: DSN: User unknown
Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LH001878: to=root@arasis.de, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31370, relay=localhost.de. [212.202.26.68], dsn=5.7.1, stat=User unknown
Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LH001878: h0EGB6LI001878: return to sender: User unknown
Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LI001878: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32394, relay=localhost.de. [212.202.26.68], dsn=5.7.1, stat=User unknown
Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LH001878: Losing ./qfh0EGB6LH001878: savemail panic
Jan 14 17:11:06 arasis sendmail[1878]: h0EGB6LH001878: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

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Anyone a bit more experience than I?

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5: Re: sendmail problem with 8.0 (response to 1)
Posted by Jamie Rasmussen on 01/14/03 06:26 PM
Here's one possible problem: There is a line in your sendmail.tcl with "Helo AOLserver [ns_info hostname]".  You should change this to "Helo [ns_info hostname]".  This is an AOLserver bug that has been reported but not yet fixed.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=632265&group_id=3152&atid=103152
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6: Re: sendmail problem with 8.0 (response to 1)
Posted by David Kuczek on 01/14/03 06:44 PM
Jamie you sweatheart,

sendmail is working via aolserver/oacs.... But, whenever I want to send a mail via webmin the error is as usual. I can't receive emails either...

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Works:

Jan 14 18:43:03 arasis sendmail[1138]: h0EHh3Tj001138: from=<mailto:david.kuczek@arasis.de>, size=188, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<mailto:200301141743.h0EHh3Tj001138@arasis.de>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jan 14 18:43:03 arasis sendmail[1140]: h0EHh3Tj001138: to=<mailto:david@kuczek.de>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30102, relay=mx00.schlund.de. [212.227.126.151], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK id=18YV5F-0005KA-00)

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Doesn't work:

Jan 14 18:44:34 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxg001157: from=david@arasis.de, size=347, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<mailto:200301141744.h0EHiYxg001157@arasis.de>, relay=root@localhost
Jan 14 18:44:35 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxg001157: to=david@kuczek.de, ctladdr=david@arasis.de (500/500), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=30199, relay=localhost.de. [212.202.26.68], dsn=5.7.1, stat=User unknown
Jan 14 18:44:35 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxg001157: h0EHiYxh001157: DSN: User unknown
Jan 14 18:44:35 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxh001157: to=david@arasis.de, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31371, relay=localhost.de. [212.202.26.68], dsn=5.7.1, stat=User unknown
Jan 14 18:44:35 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxh001157: h0EHiYxi001157: return to sender: User unknown
Jan 14 18:44:35 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxi001157: to=postmaster, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32395, relay=localhost.de. [212.202.26.68], dsn=5.7.1, stat=User unknown
Jan 14 18:44:35 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxh001157: Losing ./qfh0EHiYxh001157: savemail panic
Jan 14 18:44:35 arasis sendmail[1157]: h0EHiYxh001157: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

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7: Re: sendmail problem with 8.0 (response to 1)
Posted by Rafael Calvo on 01/15/03 03:44 AM
Hi,

I am having exactly the same error messages on a SunOS 5.8 box, with a site running openacs 4.5 and another openacs 4.6 (both PG)

The SMTP server is in another machine, where I do not have access and is quite secured so I am a bit blind on that front. The sys admin sent me the error message that looks exactly like yours.

where is the sendmail.tcl file, did that work?

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8: Re: sendmail problem with 8.0 (response to 1)
Posted by Rafael Calvo on 01/15/03 07:11 AM
Jamie
I fixed the file as you said and now it seems to be closer.
I now get a

... while talking to xxx.xxx.usyd.edu.au.:
<blockquote>>> MAIL From:<mailto:webmaster@xxx.usyd.edu.au>
</blockquote>
<<< 550 5.0.0 Access denied
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

I assume that it is because the admin of the may have not given me access.