RE: sendmail configuration

Parse error - that's strange, perhaps your configuration file is
mangled.

When did you install sendmail? What version? What OS? Has sendmail ever
worked on this server before? Who has tried to configure it before?

It should look something like this:

[root@server logs]# sendmail -v user@domain
Subject: test
..
user@xxxxxxxxx Connecting to smtp.domain via relay...
220 server.domain ESMTP Postfix
EHLO server.domain
250-server.domain
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
MAIL From:<user@domain> SIZE=14
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT To:<user@domain>
DATA
250 2.1.5 Ok
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 09D08754F9
user@xxxxxxxxx Sent (Ok: queued as 09D08754F9)
Closing connection to smtp.domain
QUIT
221 2.0.0 Bye
[root@server logs]#

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 3:07 a.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: sendmail configuration

Gef,
below command throws an error:

sendmail -v
kalyan.sundu@<domain_name>.com<kalyan.sundu@%3Cdomain_name%3E.com>
<domain name>.com: Name server timeout
kalyan.sundu@<domain_name>.com <kalyan.sundu@%3Cdomain_name%3E.com>...
Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery

Thanks,
kalyan

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Please past the output of this command:

Sendmail -v username@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: test
.


(ie, -v will give verbose output, type in the Subject line as shown,
and
then on the newline, put a period character, and push enter, then it
should
Start the connection and you'll get the output.

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 2:34 a.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: sendmail configuration

Gef,
Please find the o/p below:


telnet mx 25
Trying 192.168.5.26...
Connected to mx.<domain>.com (192.168.5.26).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.<domain>.com ESMTP Postfix
Thanks,
Kalyan


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Please confirm that you can talk to the relay server on port 25. You
can
use the telnet program to do this:

# telnet mailserver 25

- you should get a banner, please paste the output here.

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:59 a.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: sendmail configuration

Gef,
Even the sendmail.cf reflects the same value.

-kalyan

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Okay, and what is the value in your sendmail.cf?

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:53 a.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: sendmail configuration

below is the entry i got in submit.cf . I have just blanked out
domain
name.

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmx.<domainname>.com

Thanks,
Kalyan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Please paste here exactly what the "DS" directive line says in
submit.cf.

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan
Sundar
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:12 a.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: sendmail configuration

Hi Gef,
Thanks once again.

yes... after the configuration mailer=esmtp got changed to
mailer=relay
but
the relay is still pointing to root@localhost

relay=root@localhost . How do I point relay to my smtp server.
kindly
advice.

Thanks,
kalyan

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

After you've made those changes, search inside the newly
created
file
for:

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSrelay-name.domain.com <http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> <
http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> <
http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> <
http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> <
http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/>
>
What do you find?

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From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan
Sundar
Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:29 p.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: sendmail configuration

Hi Gef,
Thanks a lot for your inputs.

I made below mentioned changes to the submit.mc and configured
submit.cf.

But still the sendmail uses the relay=root@localhost and the
stat=queued
,
mailer=esmtp.

yes, I just need to send mails .please let me know if i am
missing
any
other
configurations

Thanks,
kalyan

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Are you using mail to both receive and send, or only send?

If you're using it to only send mail, then do the following:

Go to /etc/mail, here you should find a file called
submit.mc

Edit this file and update the parameter and add something
like
this
anywhere to the file:

define('SMART_HOST','relay.domain.com')dnl

And if there's an entry containing something like 'SMTP',
'127.0.0.1'
etc, comment it out by preceding it with dnl (or removing it
or
whatever).

Then type the following:

# m4 submit.mc > submit.cf

(You'll need to ensure two packages are installed for this,
sendmail-cf
and m4)

If you're using sendmail to receive mail, submit
sendmail.mc/cf
for
each
submit.mc/cf above, then restart sendmail.


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan
Sundar
Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 10:58 p.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: sendmail configuration

Hi All,
I am trying to configure sendmail on Linux server.

After the configuration the maillog show below message:

Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924:
from=root,
size=70,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<






200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U
s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/>
<
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/>>>,
relay=root@localhost
Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924:
to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com
<to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>,
delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30070, dsn=4.4.3,
stat=queued
Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927:
from=root,
size=83,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<






200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U
s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/>
<
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/> <
http://3e.domain.com/>>>,
> relay=root@localhost
Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927:
to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com
<to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>,
delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30083, dsn=4.4.3,
stat=queued
The mail status is showing as queued which makes me think
that
the
sendmail
configuarion is not properly done.

how to I make the existing mail=esmtp to mailer=relay and
relay=root@localhost to relay=<smtpserver.domain.com>

I am new to this topic. Kindly give your inputs which ll be
very
helpful
to
proceed further.

Thanks,
Kalyan
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