[ZendTo] Re: email config
Jules
Jules at Zend.To
Thu Jun 2 10:08:02 BST 2011
The other one for that is to make sure /etc/hosts.allow allows
connections to port 25 from 127.0.0.1, as it often doesn't.
On 02/06/2011 10:02, Elston, Ian wrote:
> Also on email, I found that when I turned iptables on, mail delivery
> stopped. If I left an exception for a connection to port 25 from
> 127.0.0.1 it worked. This was an rpm install on a centos server, not a
> Jules-supplied VM, so I don't know if iptables is on or off on those,
> and this may be irrelevant!
>
> Ian
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> From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf
> Of Jules
> Sent: 02 June 2011 09:57
> To: ZendTo Users
> Subject: [ZendTo] Re: email config
>
> Here's an idea I got from Google:
>
> "I removed any reference to localhost.domain.com in my hosts file and
> then also replaced ALL:LOCAL with ALL: 127.0.0.1 in my hosts.allow. The
> combination of the two caused the emails to not pass through. As soon as
> these changes were done email started passing through. If for some
> reason based on your configuration of those three files
> (hosts/hosts.allow/hosts.deny) this does not resolve you can add
> sendmail: localhost in your hosts.allow file. If this doesn't resolve
> the problem use the below recommend resources I found useful."
>
> And also, you have all your relay settings set to use 127.0.0.1. Check
> that sendmail is actually listening on that IP, rather than the "real"
> IP of the server. You can check this with
> telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> and see if it connects. If it does, press Control-] and then q and then
> Return, to close the connection.
>
> Hope some of that helps!
> Jules.
>
> On 01/06/2011 20:15, Dale Qualls wrote:
>
> I've followed the directions here:
> http://www.zend.to/virtual.php and I've completed the following steps
> (multiple times) to no avail:
>
>
> * You can log in at the text console with the user "root"
> and password "zendto". Once you have logged in for the first time,
> please change the password with the "passwd" command.
> * Put your own email SMTP server settings into
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. The ones you need to change are labelled with
> "ZendTo" in that file. Then "cd /etc/mail; make".
> * Then put your hostname in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
> Look for the line containing "zendto" and replace it with your own
> hostname.
>
> I still can't send email from the zendto box. I have this
> relaying across my internal email server (and I gave the IP address of
> the zendto box rights to relay) but it doesn't even seem like it's
> getting to the mail server.
>
> I'm sure I cheesed something up, any thoughts?
>
>
>
> [root at files@pattishall bin]# tail /var/log/maillog
> Jun 1 12:54:14 localhost sendmail[2326]: p51GsE9j002326:
> SYSERR(apache): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4Y002395:
> from=apache, size=470, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<201106011910.p51JAm4Y002395 at files@pattishall.com>,
> relay=apache at localhost<mailto:relay=apache at localhost>
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4Y002395:
> to=dale at radtechnologies.net, ctladdr=apache (48/48), delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30470, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
> dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4Y002395:
> p51JAm4Z002395: DSN: Service unavailable
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2396]: p51JAmwm002396:
> localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4Z002395:
> to=apache, delay=00:00 :00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31494, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=5.0.0,
> sta t=Service unavailable
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4Z002395:
> p51JAm4a002395: return to sender:
> Service unavailable
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4a002395:
> to=postmaster, delay=0 0:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32518, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=5.0.0,
> stat=Service unavailable
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4Z002395: Losing
> ./qfp51JAm4Z002 395: savemail panic
> Jun 1 15:10:48 localhost sendmail[2395]: p51JAm4Z002395:
> SYSERR(apache): savema il: cannot
> save rejected email anywhere
>
>
>
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