sending/recieving emails with sendmail
Lo all,
I'm using sendmail 8.12.11 in slackware 9.1, didnt really configure anything, just using it out of the box.. It turns out i couldnt send outgoing mail because i had the wrong DNS settings, but now this is fixed. However, when i reply from hotmial or yahoo to my mail server, i keep getting this error, (when i reply to root@xushi.co.uk, or root@my_ip_address) ------------------------------------------------------------ Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message to the following address(es). <root@212.158.224.166>: 212.158.224.166 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 <root@212.158.224.166>... Relaying denied Giving up on 212.158.224.166. --- Original message follows. Return-Path: <sgreadly@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040225205541.3130.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [212.158.224.166] by web13503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:55:41 GMT Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:55:41 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Samir=20Greadly?= <sgreadly@yahoo.com> Subject: sent ti ip To: root@212.158.224.166 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit testing testing ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm not sure if i have to tweak any configuration, i sure wouldn't mind any help on this.. p.s., i'm running behind a router, but have forwarded ports 25, 110, 143 Thanks |
what i did was create an account at either
http://no-ip.com or http://www.dyndns.org once you have done that, download and install the appropriate dns updating program. once you have a domin pointing to your dynamic ip, you can then use an email addy suchas user@dyndns.org or use one of the many free domains they have available. One you have done that, create a file on your server called relay-domains and place it in your /etc/mail dir. Sendmail will check this file to see which domains it will allow relaying to. ifyou have a static IP address, i guss you could place that ip address in the /etc/mail/local-host-name folder and that may work. Once you have done that do an /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart and that should allow you to receive your mail. linuxpackages.net hosts a "quick and dirty" sendmail at: http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto.p...Sendmail+Howto |
Oh my days, it worked.
Thank you for that. I don't know how many more months it would take me just to get through that ;) j/k I forgot to add i already have an account with zoneedit.com (xushi.co.uk) .co.uk domains for 2 pounds a year or something.. Thanks. |
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