On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:38:06 -0400, Shane Presley <shane.presley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks everyone for the great help with my problem yesterday! You > were of course correct. I have modified sendmail.mc to use > DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp, Name=MTA and my server now accepts > connections on port 25! > > So if I telnet from our internal networks exchange server to my fedora > box port 25, I get an connection from sendmail. > > But I'm still having some strange problems. When I try to send mail > to my fedora box, I never seem to receive it. I have tried sending > mail to root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or bb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > (which is an account on the server). > > If I run tcpdump I see our exchange server connect to deliver it. And > it appears to? Here's a small sample: > > 08:35:18.666064 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 127, id 20657, offset 0, flags [DF], > proto 6, length: 52) exchange.mydomain.com.smtp > mylinuxbox.46818: F > [tcp sum ok] 130:130(0) ack 7 win 64234 <nop,nop,timestamp 26319854 > 149656531> > 08:35:18.666424 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 44455, offset 0, flags [DF], > proto 6, length: 52) mylinuxbox.46818 > exchange.mydomain.com.smtp: F > [tcp sum ok] 7:7(0) ack 131 win 5840 <nop,nop,timestamp 149656533 > 26319854> > 08:35:18.666719 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 127, id 20658, offset 0, flags [DF], > proto 6, length: 52) exchange.mydomain.com.smtp > mylinuxbox.46818: . > [tcp sum ok] 131:131(0) ack 8 win 64234 <nop,nop,timestamp 26319854 > 149656533> > > But I never see anything in /var/spool/mail/ for root or bb. > > Looking in logs, nothing in /var/log/message. /var/log/maillog shows > entries for when I send mail out from my box (that works). But no > entries are made when my exchange server tries to deliver mail to me. > > I really have no idea what the problem is. Possibly something with my > domain name? Does my fedora box "know" that the mail is really for > it? If so, where does it put it. > > I might switch to postfix, but I feel like I am close. Thanks again everyone, > Shane > > -- lets see your sendmail.mc if you don't mind? Yang
