problem with new domain and recieving mail

stitchman · 12-13-2005, 06:18 AM

hello again,

i recently used tutorials to set up an email server here at home. i followed shilos tutorials and an SMTB AUTH howto and email worked perfectly. i had a dynamic dns account with dyndns and all mail worked for stitchbox.ath.cx. but being ever more discontent with my subdomain with every email i just had to have a real domain, so slack-fu.com was born. now i can send emails perfectly well, but when i try to reply to them with my gmail for testing, the messages are returned saying "relaying denied". i dont know how familiar with dyndns anyone is but i set up an mx exhange (whatever that is?) for recieving emails. has anyone run something like this with getting a real domain for your home server? heres some header info on a sent email:

Code:

Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 71.244.69.81 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of stitch@slack-fu.com)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:09:57 -0500 (EST)
From: me <stitch@slack-fu.com>
To: example@gmail.com
Subject: testomg again
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512130109380.1954@slack-fu.slack-fu.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

im tired of testing

and here is the returned email from the reply i send back:

Code:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    stitch@slack-fu.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.7.1 <stitch@slack-fu.com>... Relaying denied

  ----- Original message -----

Received: by 10.65.112.9 with SMTP id p9mr493239qbm;
       Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:13:06 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.65.158.14 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:13:04 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <1a39b2d0512130413n2d4de8b3s340f0f2002d9b2d4@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:13:04 -0500
From: example <example@gmail.com>
To: me <stitch@slack-fu.com>
Subject: Re: testomg again
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512130109380.1954@slack-fu.slack-fu.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
       boundary="----=_Part_58724_15193286.1134475984544"
References: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512130109380.1954@slack-fu.slack-fu.com>

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

testing reply to stitch@slack-fu.com

On 12/13/05, example <stitch@slack-fu.com> wrote:
>
> im tired of testing

Alien Bob · 12-13-2005, 06:45 AM

My guess would be that your SMTP server (Sendmail?) still thinks it is in the stitchbox.ath.cx domain, whereas you are sending an email from gmail.com to stitch@slack-fu.com. Your server will interpret that as "relaying". You can prevent that by adding slack-fu.com to the list of permitted domains.

Add your new domain name to the file /etc/mail/relay-domains and restart Sendmail.

You could also look where you defined the domain name part of your server hostname and change that.

Eric

stitchman · 12-13-2005, 11:14 AM

i had to change /etc/hostname my hostname was slack-fu.slack-fu.com for some reason so i trunctacated it to the correct name