On 8/24/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mi, den 24.08.2005 schrieb Dotan Cohen um 1:25: > > > but nothing in Gmail! I also tried with yahoo mail, which returned a > > similar output as gmail, but also nothing in the inbox (or spambox). > > Mailq returned this: > > [root@localhost ~]# mailq > > /var/spool/mqueue (5 requests) > > -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient----------- > > j7NMnopO008242 12 Wed Aug 24 01:52 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (host map: lookup (gmail.com): deferred) > > <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> > > j7NN2sRj008364 12 Wed Aug 24 02:05 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (host map: lookup (yahoo.com): deferred) > > <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> > > j7NLLon4007218 6 Wed Aug 24 00:24 <apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (host map: lookup (dotancohen.com): deferred) > > <dotan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > j7NKuMAr006803 6 Tue Aug 23 23:59 <apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (host map: lookup (dotancohen.com): deferred) > > <dotan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > j7NKu4nW006799 6 Tue Aug 23 23:58 <apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (host map: lookup (dotancohen.com): deferred) > > <dotan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Total requests: 5 > > [root@localhost ~]# > > > > After spending some time STFA and STFW I have come to the conclusion > > that the problem may be either SElinux related or due to the fact that > > I have not set an email address for this machine (it all ends in > > @localhost). Does this sound reasonable? > > > Dotan Cohen > > 2 problems: a) You try to send mails as / from localhost.localdomain > which are treated by most other mail systems to be invalid / spam. To > avoid problems you better use your ISP's mail relay as smart host (that > topic has been covered here on the list several times). But it is too > recommended to set a valid mail address if mail shall not disappear in > spam filters. b) The DNS on your host seems to not be working as > Sendmail is not able to lookup the target systems. > > SELinux can be another "problem" (as said in my other reply), especially > if you try to mail by a PHP script. This "problem" is intended and thus > an SELinux feature. > > I recommend to not try so many things at one time. Do them step by step. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp > Serendipity 02:46:33 up 1 day, 23:30, load average: 0.08, 0.10, 0.09 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDC8UcEEG6lbNmp3MRAhP7AKC+Uev8wcSmD9Q8+1vj9IpKUAvIhgCeMpFy > YRyTSWMkXRy8CBPR1Shz3JA= > =+dk8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Thanks, Alexander. I yum updated as soon as I installed the packages. Right now I'm focusing on getting mail() working. I'll work on the mysql 'problem' after I fix the mail() function (or implement a different mail function as suggested in the comments on php.net). I do not want to disable SElinux, for obvious reasons. I do not believe that if something is difficult, then you should ignore it. I want the security that SElinux provides. Paul's two commands returned to me the expected output, so I understand that DNS is functioning. Googleing for selinux+sendmail+php left me with a Red Hat archive that stated that a February update to SElinux policy made FC3, SElinux, php and sendmail play nice. But that does not provide a solution to this FC4 problem. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/118/chumbawamba.php Chumbawamba Song Lyrics
