Sendmail Queues

abakhiet · 04-19-2010, 02:29 AM

hola,
i need to ask about my sendmail that is driving me to crazy, all mails i sent from my domain to the out world goes into its Quesues and not sent yet

it receives all messages from the out world, i need some posts that help me in the configuration

bathory · 04-19-2010, 03:12 AM

Hi,

Maybe your isp does not allow you use your mail server to send emails. To check if that's the case try to telnet gmail on port 25:

Code:

telnet smtp.gmail.com 25

If you don't succeed you have to use your isp mail server as a smarthost for your sendmail server.

Regards

huwnet · 04-19-2010, 03:45 AM

What do the sendmail logs say?

abakhiet · 04-19-2010, 10:41 AM

Thanks for your replays,

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Hi,

Maybe your isp does not allow you use your mail server to send emails. To check if that's the case try to telnet gmail on port 25:

Code:

telnet smtp.gmail.com 25

If you don't succeed you have to use your isp mail server as a smarthost for your sendmail server.

Regards

but really i need to tell you that i have my domain which is xxx.info and i need to introduce mail service from it ...
so about that test i make

Code:

telnet localhost 25
ehlo localhost

and the result is

Code:

[root@abakhiet ~]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 My Domain name ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:39:39 +0200
ehlo localhost
250-My Domain name Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP

so what i can do ???

bathory · 04-19-2010, 12:08 PM

You didn't understand what I've told you. You need to use telnet to an external mail server just to check if your ISP blocks you from sending emails.
You server works, since you can receive mail.
You can look in /var/log/maillog as already been told by huwnet, or run

Code:

mailq -v
mailq -Ac -v

to check the mail stuck in the queues.

abakhiet · 04-20-2010, 01:41 AM

Thanks for your reply, i make your commands and here is the output

Quote:

[root@abakhiet ~]# mailq -v
/var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -Priority- ---Q-Time--- --------Sender/Recipient--------
o3J7Qp2o005888* 1 2190414+Apr 19 09:26 <abakhiet@MyDomain.info>
(Deferred: Connection timed out with f.mx.mail.yahoo.com.)
<eebng_1422@yahoo.com>
(Deferred: Connection timed out with f.mx.mail.yahoo.com.)
o3J7NRHn005835 1 2280420+Apr 19 09:23 <abakhiet@MyDomain.info>
(Deferred: Connection timed out with d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.)
<eebng_1422@yahoo.com>
(Deferred: Connection timed out with d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.)
Total requests: 2

and the second command its output is

Quote:

root@abakhiet ~]# mailq -Ac -v
/var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
Total requests: 0

please help me solving it....

bathory · 04-20-2010, 02:03 AM

That means that you cannot reach gmail somehow.
As I've already told you, most likely your ISP does not allow you to send mail (many ISPs do so).
Try to use your ISP's mail server as a smart host and see if it works. Or else you should contact them about this

Regards

abakhiet · 04-24-2010, 11:39 AM

hola, my friends,
i call my ISP and talk to him about my problem and he told me that

Quote:

you need to change your outgoing mail server to be: ISP Domain which requires authentication (using your mail account with ISP Code) You can send with your outgoing mail server through port 587.

so, i need to ask about where is the parameters to put these things in Postfix ???
i need to put some outgioing domain, its port and its Authentication code

bathory · 04-24-2010, 12:50 PM

Hi,

Is it postfix or sendmail as in your thread's title?
Anyway for sendmail to use a smarthost with authentication on port 587, you can use the instructions here.
For postfix the onlysimple I've found is this. Note the #4 note about using a different port of the relay host

Regards