Sendmai can send mails but unable to receive mails

satimis · 02-15-2007, 08:19 AM

Hi folks,

slamd64-11.0
sendmail

The mail server can send mails but unable to receive mails. I don't have its front-end package such Evolution/Thunderbird installed. I ran command line to perform following test.

1)
# telnet localhost 25
....
etc.

send a mail to yahoo.com. Mail received without problem.

2)
Send a webmail from yahoo.com to this server. Failure.

warning:

Code:

<satimis@satimis.com>:
220.232.213.178 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 <satimis@satimis.com>... Relaying denied
Giving up on 220.232.213.178.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <satimis@yahoo.com>
Received: (qmail 84830 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Feb 2007 11:15:33 
-0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
  s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
  
h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID;
  
b=o2Bp+ydrolZ2ztzWv6a3BgAKUwnjRoONkH7s8QQUKlLYPnVA/tH0O1GNB5d6ToaiC/0YLovdFzESj3HjEd1bgIQb5ehR5V6IbfZo9e5Cf9h1PS40xlUTaq08B9mEUG5SztuSnfzBm5ocYDV7jrZ/A+t+y5j9/D4vQ2M7lioWHbA=;
X-YMail-OSG: 
W7wktw8VM1nuEKFpUVsL2rOsdscNa.EoIKc8eUkqqp5ZIkRPUx28Gw1u5La6L2.uxsLsYVl03O6nEZtiVx5iQixlH77Tc7THCxEA805G0JaOCTuEf.9R42QqSCvTGq8BLajYLYpGt6EED5A-
Received: from [220.232.213.178] by web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com via 
HTTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:15:32 CST
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:15:32 +0800 (CST)
....

220.232.213.178 = external fixed IP address of the server
192.168.0.10 = internal IP of the server
domain = satimis.com

# echo '$=m' | sendmail -bt -d0.4

Code:

Version 8.13.8
 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
                NAMED_BIND NETINET NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF
                SOCKETMAP STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG
Canonical name: localhost
 UUCP nodename: host
        a.k.a.: host
        a.k.a.: [127.0.0.1]
        a.k.a.: [192.168.0.10]
        a.k.a.: host.satimis.com

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
      (short domain name) $w = localhost
  (canonical domain name) $j = localhost
         (subdomain name) $m = <null>
              (node name) $k = host
========================================================

WARNING: local host name (localhost) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I?
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>

Please advise where I have to edit on /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

TIA

B.R.
satimis

nephish · 02-15-2007, 09:32 AM

um.. i don't think that sendmail receives mail at all, it is an smtp server. you need a pop or imap server to handle the getting mail. I know it's weird. i just went through all this myself. You need two seperate servers to send and reveive mail.

btw, you might want to edit your post and put xxx instead of your real ip address.

hth

satimis · 02-15-2007, 10:22 AM

Hi nephish,

Tks for your advice.

Quote:

i don't think that sendmail receives mail at all, it is an smtp server. you need a pop or imap server to handle the getting mail. I know it's weird. i just went through all this myself. You need two seperate servers to send and reveive mail.

# slackpkg search smtp

Code:

.....
[ installed ] - getmail-4.6.3-noarch-1
[uninstalled] - sendmail-cf-8.13.8-noarch-4

# slackpkg search pop

Code:

....
[ installed ] - getmail-4.6.3-noarch-1
[uninstalled] - sendmail-cf-8.13.8-noarch-4

# slackpkg search imap

Code:

.......
[ installed ] - getmail-4.6.3-noarch-1
[uninstalled] - sendmail-cf-8.13.8-noarch-4

From above can getmail replace them? TIA

Quote:

btw, you might want to edit your post and put xxx instead of your real ip address.

On which file to put xxx. Tks

B.R.
satimis