outgoing Mail in queue

[Grobi]

Hi everybody,
we have the following setup:

scalix -> smtp-proxy -> internet

we can:
- receive and send mails locally
- receive mails from the internet

we cannot:
- send mails to internet

any opinions??

[btisdall]

Can you post logging output from sendmail when you attempt to send to external recipients - this is usually found in /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail.log.

[Grobi]

there aren't any useful information - i'm running the latest scalix on fc5

[btisdall]

Define 'useful' - can you see the messages being handed off from Scalix to sendmail or not?

If they're not making it as far as sendmail you should see them queuing up on the internet mail gateway - you can inspect this with:

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omstat -q unix

[jaime.pinto]

open 2 shells on the server:
1) from one do a tail -f /var/loig/maillog
2) from the other send an email with Mail externaluser@externaldomain.com

post the last couple of lines from the tail

[Grobi]

Hi again,
it seems to work now, but the mailheader looks strange... but let me give you some extra input

- the mailserver has an internal ip and an internal hostname (192.168.0.98 / scalix.mylocaldomain)
- the relay has the mx- and a-record mailtest.ourcompany.com

Now i sent a mail from scalix to a freemail-account and this is the header:

[...]

Received: from [213.209.xxx.xxx] (helo=mailtest.ourcompany.com) by mx19.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1I3XYu-0006bM-00 for grobi@web.de; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:28:00 +0200

Received: from [192.168.10.98] (helo=scalix.mylocaldomain) by mailtest.ourcompany.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1I3XYr-0004NH-3E for grobi@web.de; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:27:57 +0200

Received: from scalix.mylocaldomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by scalix.mylocaldomain (8.13.8/8.13. with ESMTP id l5RDSGKf004548 for <grobi@web.de>; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:28:16 +0200

Received: from mylaptop.mylocaldomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by scalix.mylocaldomain (Scalix SMTP Relay 11.1.0.10849) via ESMTP; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:28:16 +0200 (CEST)

Is this indicating for a loop?

*EDIT*
If i try sending to another freemail-provider (1&1 and sometimes GMX) i receive a Return Mail:

----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.4.6 Too many hops 26 (25 max): from <grobi@mailtest.ourcompany.com> via localhost, to <grobi@1und1.de>

... maillog says the same as the mail

[btisdall]

First one looks normal, second one looks like a routing loop resulting from your message being rejected - are you sure that <grobi@mailtest.ourcompany.com> is a valid recipient at your end?

[Grobi]

hi all,
seems to work right now since i started sendmail

all outgoing mail now have localhost.localdomain in their header (from sendmail??) - but it would be nice if there would be a smarter name... like smtp.mydomain or so... how can i configure it??

[Grobi]

*push*

[btisdall]

Can you post an example of the entire headers Grobi.

[Grobi]

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from scalix.mylocaldomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])   by scalix.mylocaldomain (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l69CP41h007093   for <grobi@web.de>; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:25:04 +0200

this is the important line of the header. i think it's caused because sendmail is configured to listen on 127.0.0.1:25 ...

[Grobi]

hmm, i thougt i can solve this by adding another (virtual) ip to the server... 192.168.10.50 for example and add

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DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.10.50, Name=MTA')dnl

to sendmail.mc... but now all mails are in the queue again. why?

[Grobi]

mkay, now i did the following changes to get it work...

sendmail-daemon is on 192.168.10.50 (/etc/mail/sendmail.mc)

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DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.10.50, Name=MTA')dnl

unix.mapper is now configured as (/var/opt/scalix/ml/s/sys/unix.mapper)

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transport-service = inet:192.168.10.50:25

and sendmail should accept this (/etc/mail/access && make)

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Connect:192.168.10.50                   RELAY

i hope i didn't made stupid things... any feedback???!