[SunHELP] issues with sending external mail via Sendmail..?

Mon Sep 24 02:15:52 CDT 2001

Matt Lemsing wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having some trouble getting my sendmail to send external emails.
> Looking at the error report below, the successful mail sends to internal
> recipients who have the correct relay set to mail.resmed.com.au, but it is
> seeing all external recipients as having a different relay. Is there a
> seperate setting within my mail servers config that needs to be set for
> external recipients to use the same relay as internal addresses?
>
> I have attached my /var/log/syslog snippets below as well as my sendmail
> config...
>
> ALSO
>
> as you wil se below, my /etc/mail directory has 2 copies of each file but
> names differently. For example....
>
> /etc/mail directory
> **********************
> # ls -al
> total 252
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     mail         512 May 31 23:43 .
> drwxr-xr-x  29 root     sys         3072 Sep 23 18:47 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     bin         1201 Aug 28  2000 aliases
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           0 Aug 28  2000 aliases.dir
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        1024 Aug 28  2000 aliases.pag
> -rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin          153 Aug 28  2000 Mail.rc
> -rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin         1829 Aug 28  2000 mailx.rc
> -r--r--r--   1 bin      bin        11973 Aug 28  2000 main.cf
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other      26874 Jun 11 21:34 main.cf.new
> -r--r--r--   1 bin      bin        24715 Jul 10 20:40 sendmail.cf
> -r--r--r--   1 root     other       9295 May 31 23:43 sendmail.cf.old
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     bin         4911 May 24 19:52 sendmail.hf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          32 Sep 23 18:47 sendmail.pid
> -r--r--r--   1 bin      bin         9197 Aug 28  2000 subsidiary.cf
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other      27187 Jun 11 21:36 subsidiary.cf.new
> #
> *****************************
> I think this duplication came from when i upgraded to the latest version of
> solaris....so my question is, which ones are correct and what ones can i do
> away with..?
>
> any help would be much appreciated.
>
> /var/log/syslog snippets
> ************************************
>                                 Sep 24 02:09:09 meshak sendmail[13277]:
> CAA13274: to=dbasupp at resmed.com.au, ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:05,
> xdelay=00:00:05, mailer
> =esmtp, relay=mail.resmed.com.au. [172.16.2.141], stat=Sent (OK)
>
> However, the mail sends to external recipients does not seem to be using the
> same relay method.
>
>                                 Sep 21 16:59:04 meshak sendmail[25602]:
> QAA25600: to=labhardt at datacomm.ch, ctladdr=txuser (200/200), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, m
>                                 ailer=esmtp, relay=datacomm.ch, stat=Host
> unknown (Name server: datacomm.ch: host not found)
>                                 Sep 21 16:59:04 meshak sendmail[25602]:
> QAA25600: QAA25602: DSN: Host unknown (Name server: datacomm.ch: host not
> found)
>                                 Sep 21 16:59:04 meshak sendmail[25602]:
> QAA25602: to=txuser, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
> stat=Sent
>                                 Sep 21 17:07:13 meshak sendmail[25849]:
> RAA25849: from=txuser, size=630, class=0, pri=30630, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200109210707.RAA25849 at mes
> hak.resmed.com.au>, relay=root at localhost
>
> *********************************
>
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> *******************************************
> "sendmail.cf" [Read only] 880 lines, 24715 characters
> ######################################################################
> ######################################################################
> #####
> #####       SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILE
> #####
> ######################################################################
> ######################################################################
>
> # level 7 config file format
> V7/Sun
>
> ##################
> #   local info   #
> ##################
>
> Cwlocalhost
> # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
> Fw-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
>
> # my official domain name
> # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your
> domain
> #Dj$w
> Dm resmed.com.au
>
> CP.
>
> # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
> #DSmail.$m
> DRmail
> CRmail
> DFmail
>
> # place to which unknown users should be forwarded
> #Kuser user -m -a<>
> #DLname_of_luser_relay
>
> # operators that cannot be in local usernames (i.e., network indicators)
> CO @ % !
>
> # a class with just dot (for identifying canonical names)
> C..
>
> # a class with just a left bracket (for identifying domain literals)
> C[[
>
> # Mailer table (overriding domains)
> #Kmailertable dbm /etc/mailertable
>
> # Domain table (adding domains)
> #Kdomaintable dbm /etc/domaintable
>
> # Generics table (mapping outgoing addresses)
> #Kgenerics dbm /etc/genericstable
>
> # Virtual user table (maps incoming users)
> #Kvirtuser dbm /etc/virtusertable
>
> # who I send unqualified names to (null means deliver locally)
> DR
>
> # who gets all local email traffic ($R has precedence for unqualified names)
> DH
>
> # dequoting map
> Kdequote dequote
>
> # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if we
> masquerade
> # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even if we have a relay
> # class M: domains that should be converted to $M
> #CL root
> CE root
>
> # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
> DM
>
> # my name for error messages
> DnMAILER-DAEMON
>
> CPREDIRECT
>
> # Configuration version number
> DZ8.8.8
> ********************************************
>
> cheers,
>
> Matt Lemsing
> eBusiness Technical Manager
>
> ResMed Corporation
> 97 Waterloo Rd, North Ryde,
> New South Wales, 2113 Australia.
> Tel: +61 2 9886 5554 Fax: +61 2 9878 6815
>
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First check followings
1) can you telnet to port 25 of  outside mail serversfrom your mail server
2) Is dns work on your mail server.?

/Gayantha