SMTP & IMAP OK but Sendmail Connection refused
 

Tried this in the networking forum with no luck so thought I'd try here ...

Stumped,

- RH9 behind a firewall and using an alternate smtp port as 25 is blocked by my isp
- Both IMAP and SMTP mail work fine to either local or internet recipients... can send and receive using IMAP and SMTP to myport using Outlook on a wintel client ... can send and receive using local mailbox and SMTP to myport using Evolution right on the server ... also have SquirrelMail sending and receiving using SMTP to myport

The issue is that sendmail doesn't work...

sendmail -v anybody@mydomain.com gives:
anybody@mydomain.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
anybody@mydomain.com... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]


And the log shows:
Oct 18 11:28:09 myserver sendmail[18528]: h9IFS4qI018528: from=root, size=5, class
=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200310181528.h9IFS4qI018528@myserver.mydomain.com>, relay=root@
localhost
Oct 18 11:28:09 myserver sendmail[18528]: h9IFS4qI018528: to=anybody@mydomain.com, ctla
ddr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30005, relay=
[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.
0.1]


Linux firewall is NOT enabled. And telnets to myport using any of hostname, localhost, and 127.0.0.1 work fine.

Help!

From DavidPhillips in the General forum:

You sould try setting it up to relay through your ISP's mail server, then it should be ok.


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David,

Thanks for the response and just to confirm, are you talking about adding DSISPMailServer to sendmail.cf? If so, I've had that in there all along. It resolved my initial setup problem of not being able to send mail at all. After adding it, smtp mail started working, although sendmail still won't work.

What's interesting is that even using sendmail to a local recipient gives the errors described above.

Other thoughts?

So they locked the discussion in the forum where I actually had a thread going on this. Very helpful - thanks a pile.

Anyways, let's see if this continues ok in here ...

Still no replies huh?

Well I guess it's better to give than receive. Found a fix in, believe it or not, a Mac forum addressing the same issue in Jaguar.

It seems that sendmail has an issue with choosing between sendmail.cf & submit.cf. Copied over submit.cf with sendmail.cf, tested, and voila - sendmail now works!

Here's the URL ... http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/15245

Re: SMTP & IMAP OK but Sendmail Connection refused
 

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OtinDaku
[B]Tried this in the networking forum with no luck so thought I'd try here ...

Stumped,

- RH9 behind a firewall and using an alternate smtp port as 25 is blocked by my isp
- Both IMAP and SMTP mail work fine to either local or internet recipients... can send and receive using IMAP and SMTP to myport using Outlook on a wintel client ... can send and receive using local mailbox and SMTP to myport using Evolution right on the server ... also have SquirrelMail sending and receiving using SMTP to myport

The issue is that sendmail doesn't work...

sendmail -v anybody@mydomain.com gives:
anybody@mydomain.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
anybody@mydomain.com... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]


And the log shows:
Oct 18 11:28:09 myserver sendmail[18528]: h9IFS4qI018528: from=root, size=5, class
=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200310181528.h9IFS4qI018528@myserver.mydomain.com>, relay=root@
localhost
Oct 18 11:28:09 myserver sendmail[18528]: h9IFS4qI018528: to=anybody@mydomain.com, ctla
ddr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30005, relay=
[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.
0.1]


Linux firewall is NOT enabled. And telnets to myport using any of hostname, localhost, and 127.0.0.1 work fine.

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Hi i have sort of the same problem, i am am sending mails through the smtp server in a domain fodevasa.com, to anydomain@anyhost.com, but i have no problen sending and receiving mails of the same domain (fodevasa.com).

after a few hours i tried to send the email it returns with the following message:

The original message was received at Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:19:09 -0500
from dpareja.fodevasa.com [192.168.1.13]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mail.ecuagol.com.
<jcarbo@ecuagol.com>... Deferred: Name server: mail.ecuagol.com.: host
name lookup failure
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

and the same with any email addres...
i am very confused:confused: