Nick
nate wrote:
Nicholas Fitzgerald said:Feb 21 20:40:12 dns sendmail[19531]: h1M4eCqe019529: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (48/48), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30387, relay=icesource.com. [66.12.123.173], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by icesource.com.ok. I think I understand the problem. There are 4 solutions that I can think of off the top of my head:first one is to run a nameserver on your local network where icesource.com/axelis.com is, and host a copy of the zone icesource.com and point the MX for icesource.com to 127.0.0.1. second one is to enable sendmail to recieve connections on the ethernet interface. The proper way would be to edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and rebuild sendmail.cf but you can edit sendmail.cf directly(reccomend backing it up first). Looks like there is this option in my setup: O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA on line 262 of my sendmail.cf it will probably be on a nearby line on yours. Commenting it out and restarting sendmail allowed sendmail to listen on all network interfaces. third option I think would be to address mail @localhost, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my redhat machine I did a: echo "test" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my mail log showed: Feb 21 21:01:50 redhat sendmail[13025]: h1M51nn13025: from=root, size=25, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 21 21:01:50 redhat sendmail[13028]: h1M51nn13025: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30025, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (note it is using mailer=local) fourth option is to use a mail hub(smarthost), which is something I use for my networks. All my servers have postfix listening on loopback, I configure the mail hub to recieve mail for those servers. All the other servers relay all email to the mail hub, and the mail hub sends it on to my mailbox(on yet another server). I do this since most of my servers use the mail system for reports and stuff, but all of them except the real mail servers have no users on the system that recieve mail, so I forward mail via the mailhub. Once I saw the log entries it took a minute or 2 but I realized I just helped another guy on this on his mandrake box not long ago, though his was slightly different, had to do with static NAT mapping, but the result was the same, the system was sending mail to a "local" IP but the connection was being refused. easy problem, easy solutions(well some of them) :) good luck nate
