Bob Brennan wrote:
Hello, I have an FC3 machine that has been running about a dozen websites and 3 dozen mail accounts reliably for more than a year, I stopped updating about 6 months ago so the versions might be a bit stale but I would prefer to fix my immediate problem(s) rather than update and cause new ones. The software I am using that is in question, I believe, is Sendmail, Dovecote, Procmail, ClamAv, Spamassasin,and Squirrelmail. The problem - email into my personal account "bob" @ many different domains seems to have stopped a few hours ago with the message "Technical details of permanent failure: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.7.1 <bob@domain>... Relaying denied. Proper authentication required." The log file says - Apr 6 11:05:59 myserver sendmail[5580]: k36A5wFQ005580: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=bob@xxxxxxxxxx, relay=zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192], reject=550 5.7.1 bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Relaying denied. Proper authentication required. Apr 6 11:05:59 myserver sendmail[5580]: k36A5wFQ005580: from=<rbrennan96@xxxxxxxxx>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192] And there are suspicious emails queued in Sendmail such as: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:17:15 "Bob Brennan" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kBDeferred: Connection timed out with wc.funnel.revenuedirect.com.akadns.net. The obvious clue for me is the "wc.funnel.revenuedirect.com.akadns.net" that appears to be the culprit, but it has been too long ago that I considered myself a Linux expert to remember where to start on this type of thing. Wiping the machine and starting over is not a good option, and yes I had rsynced everything important to an FC4 machine only hours before this happened. Any clues as to where to start looking please?
Your sendmail configuration. It doesn't appear to recognize domain.xxx as a domain it should be accepting mail for. Check /etc/mail/local-host-names.
Paul.
