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Sending outside domain fails
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:03 am
by kmcelwain
kvmcelwain@alltel.net
because: A mail transport failure occurred
Supplementary Information:
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.nosa.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory
if I dig alltel.net I get all of the right stuff.
I am using MailWasher and it seems to be working fine...simply nothing get's out.
And I don't have a sendmail.nosa.cf...let alone do I know what it is.
Tried renaming sendmail.nosa.cf...but still no joy.
HELP...oh SWA is a whole lot faster now.
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:29 am
by florian
I think we need to find out where this comes from.
Try
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cd /etc/mail
grep sendmail.nosa *
cd /var/opt/scalix/sys # assuming this is scalix 10
grep sendmail.nosa *
cd /var/opt/scalix/??/s/sys # assuming this is scalix 11
grep sendmail.nosa *
and see if it finds any match. I believe this must have something to do with your Mailwasher setup.
Florian.
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:08 pm
by kmcelwain
Florian,
Let me expand on the setup.
Old Server:
Scalix 10
Spamassassin
New Server:
Salix 10 hardware update, copied the var/opt/scalix folder to the new machine
installed Scalix
Installed MailWasher
Everything works now but sending messages to outside domains.
So, what files in var/opt/scalix would have been changed when I installed scalix originally.
Hmmm...this seems to be the problem...old server had a sendmail.nosa.cf
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:44 pm
by kmcelwain
didn't get any reponse on grep for the etc/mail/ folder
but did get something for this one. maybe a yum update sendmail and sendmail-cf
I'm grasping here.
[root@mail sys]# grep sendmail.nosa *
unix.mapper:transport-service = /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -C /etc/mail/sendmail.nosa.cf
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:59 pm
by florian
ok, so this is certainly non-standard config that someone must have put in there.
Try to remove the -C /etc/mail/.... option and restart the outgoing internet mail gateway.
assume this is scalix 10?
Florian.
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:46 pm
by kmcelwain
Florian,
It's almost Christmas, I would love to send you a present.
Exactly what file am I supposed to be editing?
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:50 pm
by florian
hm... just do the following
1.a (on Scalix 10)
cd /var/opt/scalix
1.b (on Scalix 11)
cd /var/opt/scalix/??/s
2.
cp release.sys/unix.mapper sys/unix.mapper
3.
omoff -d 0 -w internet; omon -w internet
Hope this helps,
Florian.
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:23 pm
by kmcelwain
The original message was received at Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:37:55 -0500
from root@localhost
----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 banks.k12.ga.us: Name server timeout
451 banks.k12.ga.us: Name server timeout
451 alltel.net: Name server timeout
Okay so I'm guessing I'm having a DNS issue now
I'm not getting the send error...it's just not going out.
this is what an nslookup gave me
> mail.alltel.net
Server: 205.152.0.20
Address: 205.152.0.20#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mail.alltel.net
Address: 166.102.165.30
>
> Server: 205.152.0.20
Address: 205.152.0.20#53
** server can't find [root\@mail: NXDOMAIN
> Server: 205.152.0.20
Address: 205.152.0.20#53
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:25 pm
by kmcelwain
It worked.
Okay removing that line...plus
changed my DNS settings and restarted the network as well as scalix service.
sent a message to my yahoo and it made it there just fine.
YEAH
Thank for your help
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:07 pm
by kmcelwain
Okay, It seems to be a problem with the receiving mail server
My host.conf could be the problem, mine is clean
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
should I add 168.8.28.2 mail mail.banks.k12.ga.us ?
Original-Envelope-Id:
458DEDE7.4020200@banks.k12.ga.us
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.banks.k12.ga.us
Received-From-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
Arrival-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:02:52 -0500
Final-Recipient: rfc822;
kvmcelwain@hotmail.com
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822;
kvmcelwain@hotmail.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Command rejected for policy reasons. For troubleshooting information, go to
http://postmaster.msn.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:02:53 -0500
Gotcha
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:11 pm
by kmcelwain
http://www.spamhaus.org/
Oh, somehow I got added to this new XBL Advisory List
http://cbl.abuseat.org/
Hmmmm...wonder how that happened.
I'm going to look into it but apparently that seems to be the problem.