Paul Howarth wrote:
Mark Sargent wrote:
Mark Sargent wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:04 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
Hi All,
I am giving this a whirl on a machine at work. I've set it to use our provider to relay(right terminology.?) Ok, I set up an account in Evolution that uses smtp:localhost.localdomain and sent a mail to myself. I then checked with Thunderbird to see if the mail was successful, but, nothing. I'm sure I've missed something very fundamental. Below is the only section I changed in my .mc file,
dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.feel.to')
Anything else need adjusting/tweaking..? Cheers.
You need to delete the "dnl", which means "delete to new line". It's m4's way of commenting things out.
Paul.
Hi All,
thanx Paul. Paul, is there a way to confirm that the sendmail.cf is now sending via smtp.feel.to as the test mail is still not arriving..? Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
Hi All,
ok, I checked /var/log/maillog and found this,
Apr 11 16:51:06 localhost sendmail[7896]: j3B7p5JJ007893: to=<powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<coolboarderguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (500/500), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=120395, relay=sv.feel.to. [211.10.15.172], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j3B7oLl09915 Message accepted for delivery)
That looks like success from my end, yes..? But, it's not reaching my inbox for the address I'm mailing to. Anything I should be double checking with this..? Cheers.
Your mail server is sending out mail with a bogus from: address of coolboarderguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No sensible mail server will accept mail from unresolvable domains like that. You need to use a real domain name. Look up masquerading in /usr/share.sendmail-cf/README
Paul.
Hi All,
Paul, I have read this section at the tutorial site,
You can have your host masquerade as another by using this macro:
MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain')
Masquerading is a very important part of a client/server mail hub configuration. Any machine configured like this will rewrite the SMTP From: header of all outbound mail to look like the message came from the address you're masquerading as. This address /must/ be an address record in DNS, not simply a CNAME, or the remote end will canonicalize the address back to the original name.
and was wondering, as it's a requirement to have the address in a DNS record, does this have to be a registered domain name, as we don't have 1. If no, then I can just masquerade as anyone(not that I really want to)..? Our router is our DNS, so we would have to add this record to it, yes..? Sorry for the mundane questions. Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
