Outgoing sendmail issue
 

We normally run our servers with sendmail disabled, but we now have a need to route some mail to a mail server within our company for distribution. The mail however is not leaving the server ???

I have verified access to the mail server from each server we are trying to send mail from.

The sendmail config file contains:
cat /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
DAEMON=no
QUEUE=15m

I've added the Smart Relay to the sendmail.cf file:
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmailhost.mailserver.com
....

sendmail software installed:
rpm -qa |grep -i sendma
sendmail-8.13.1-3.2.el4
#

chkconfig sendmail --list
sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

service sendmail status
sendmail (pid 31533 31524) is running...

ps -ef |grep mail
root 14130 16863 0 10:53 pts/0 00:00:00 grep mail
root 31524 1 0 Apr14 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
smmsp 31533 1 0 Apr14 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue

Anyone know what I am missing to get this to work ?
For security reasons our security group does not want the sendmail daemon to run..

Thanks

I havent seen any probs in your steps.
i'll check your steps later maybe i went through it quickly.

Can you clarify? Is the mail staying on the various hosts that you are trying to send from or the mail server that is distributing the mail?

Forrest

Looks to me that u have not configured sendmail to work, yes u have started the service, but what are the settings to allow mail to flow check on /etc/mail/access, what is in that file. u need to allow your network ips to be accepted to send mail out. Good luck.

The mail is being generated on the individual servers, and staying on those servers, it is not being routed to the mail server:

Apr 13 07:59:46 spctel141 sendmail[15412]: m3DBxkKk015412: to=CVGcpu@perf.dcd.convergys.com, ctladdr=adm (3/4), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=42938, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Apr 13 11:58:02 spctel141 sendmail[28528]: m3DFw2jg028528: from=adm, size=19275, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200804131558.m3DFw2jg028528@spctel141.spc.speechport.net>, relay=adm@localhost
Apr 13 11:58:02 spctel141 sendmail[28528]: m3DFw2jg028528: to=CVGcpu@perf.dcd.convergys.com, ctladdr=adm (3/4), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=49275, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]


The /etc/mail/access server contains:
# cat ./access
# Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
# of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
# The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
# package.
#
# by default we allow relaying from localhost...
localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY

i see from the logs that the localhost is not allowed to pass mail though,and "u are also using an old version, u need to update". In the old version we use ip_allow file in /etc/mail, there is also a file called sendmail.mc which u need to go through to allow 127.0.0.1, can u also do "nmap -sS 127.0.0.1" see what ports are open, then also do the same for the ip u have given the network card(s). But, if u can, update to the new sendmail (dont know what unix/linux version) u are using but u need to upgrade to the new version, and that will be easy to work with, and pliz note that in the new version they have dropped "ip_allow", and are using "access" file, and the format for allowing is "Connect:(ip address) RELAY" in that order, pliz note that also in the sendmail.mc file after making any changes, u need to recompile it using the command "make -C /etc/mail" then restart the service.