Sendmail wierd!

idscypher · 09-15-2003, 11:54 AM

Hi all just a small problem i know that is something verry easy to resolve but cant see it know

right,
have all configured on pine the system everything ok.
can recieve emails from the outside to my system (with domain).
sending an email to myself on the system also works.

but cant send emails to the outside...

not blocking smtp 25 telnet etc

any ideias

tkz all

cnjohnson · 09-15-2003, 01:16 PM

Check out masquerade and masquerade_all option in the sendmail.mc configuration file. That should get you started.

Cheers--
Charles

fsbooks · 09-15-2003, 01:39 PM

Any diagnostics? A simple one: "cat <some text file>|mail -v <outside address>". It might give some hints.

idscypher · 09-15-2003, 02:03 PM

following the advise of fsbooks give me this error

cat a.txt|mail -v my@hotmail.com
hotmail.com: Name server timeout
my@hotmail.com... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
my@hotmail.com... queued

well server timeout wierd

cnjohnson
checking our advice tkz

any idea?

cnjohnson · 09-15-2003, 06:31 PM

If I am not mistaken, at the very least, you will need a line in your sendmail.mc file like this:

define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.yourisp.com')

or

define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.yourisp.com')

You will also need something like:

MASQUERADE_AS(`yourisp.com. ')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(yourisp.com)dnl

and

FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl

Lots to look at and tweak!

Cheers--
Charles

fsbooks · 09-16-2003, 01:31 AM

You do have a good nameserver set up, yes?

what happens when you type: "dig mx hotmail.com"

or alternatively: "nslookup -querytype=MX hotmail.com"

Also, do you have any firewall rrules regarding port 53: domain server. People tend to be so concened with security these days that I have heard of people blocking their own domain server.

idscypher · 09-16-2003, 04:38 AM

did the

dig mx hotmail.com
nslookup -querytype=MX hotmail.com

the output is ok cheking dns (53) also checking the sendmail.mc

tkz all