MTA error with re-routed mail?

[BigBirdy]

We are using mailscanner as a mail/spam/av gateway and created a mailertable entry in sendmail to route all mail to the internal Scalix server. Everything appears to be working fine but the maillog on the gateway shows the error below when the message gets forwarded to the Scalix mail server? I have tried setting the mailertable entry to smtp and esmtp but neither appear to make a difference. I dont know if this is a sendmail or scalix issue?

scalixserver.mydomain.com did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

[Kent_Brake]

Hi,

See if you are able to send from the mailscanner box to your scalix server manually first. Here is an example of how to do this: http://www.pantz.org/email/misc/smtptelnet.shtml. Please let me know what the results are.

[BigBirdy]

The url you provided is dead?

[bchapman]

I think the correct URL is http://www.pantz.org/email/misc/smtptelnet.shtml (Looks like a period got inadvertently added in the original)

Ben

[BigBirdy]

After following those instructions to send mail through the Scalix server while telneting in from the gateway server, it worked fine and the message was sent without getting that message....

scalixserver.mydomain.com did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Johnny,

Actually you need to do it from the other direction, from the Scalix server back to the mailscanner box. The error you're seeing is saying that the machine scalixserver.mydomain.com didn't issue the command, which means the Scalix server initiated the connection to the mailscanner box.

Keep in mind, Scalix uses sendmail for all outbound SMTP connections, so you should be able to look in the /var/log/maillog file on the Scalix server and see the corresponding log entry.

Thanks,
Rachel

[BigBirdy]

Ah, so I did it now from the scalix server to the gateway server and it still produced that message below. I as also mistaken on the previous test in the wrong direction, that message also appeared...it just took around 3 minutes after the message was successfully sent.

scalixserver.mydomain.com did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Johnny,

Well, if it does it when you just do the telnet commands, then there's something wrong on the mailscanner box. If you telnet from another machine to the mailscanner box do you also get that error?

Thanks,
Rachel