Sending outside domain fails

[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.

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[kmcelwain]

Florian,

It's almost Christmas, I would love to send you a present.

Exactly what file am I supposed to be editing?

[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.

[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

[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

[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

[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.