Hi,

I am having a few problems with configuring Sendmail on a fresh install of CentOS 5.6 32Bit and was after some help.

I have a couple of CentOS boxes installed and want them to send Emails to my domain account via our existing internal Lotus Domino SMTP server. I have followed a lot of online documents about how to configure this (such as http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0009.html) but when I try am not even getting anything in my SMTP servers logs for a connection.

What I have basically done is uncomment the following:

define(`SMART_HOST', `your-smtp-server')

and added the IP address of my SMTP server (have tried FQDN as well). The SMTP server doesn't require authentication so I assume I don't need to do anything else than above. I have then completed the following:

m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

and then restarted sendmail. When I then try "sendmail -bv peter.shankland@domain.tld" I get the following:

peter.shankland@domain.tld... deliverable: mailer relay, host 172.29.1.76, user peter.shankland@domain.tld

which looks hopeful. However, now when I run "sendmail peter.shankland@domain.tld" I don't get anything delivered. I have telnet'd (on port 25) into the SMTP server with no problems from the CentOS box so it isn't an access issue.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

I forgot to include the undeliverable mail info:

==========================================================================
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:11:54 +0100
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@ntp1.domain.tld>
To: <ts-admin@ntp1.domain.tld>
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)

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The original message was received at Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:11:54 +0100
from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<peter.shankland@domain.tld>
(reason: 550 Host unknown)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 5.1.2 <peter.shankland@domain.tld>... Host unknown (Name server: 172.29.1.76: host not found)

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Reporting-MTA: dns; ntp1.domain.tld
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost.localdomain
Arrival-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:11:54 +0100

Final-Recipient: RFC822; peter.shankland@domain.tld
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; 172.29.1.76
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Host unknown
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:11:54 +0100

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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:11:51 +0100
From: ts-admin@ntp1.domain.tld

hello
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Thanks.

Sorry to bump but anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks.

Hi,

Your domain (domain.tld) does not have an MX record to point to your mailserver, or the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf cannot find it.
Can you send email to gmail.com or other external mail server? And what gives:
Also, you can put the IP address of your smarthost into square brackets, so sendmail doesn't try to resolve it.

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Hi, thanks so much for the reply

Worked perfectly!!

Thanks.