Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail
Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either. It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to. -chris 09:33:06/usr/sbin$ sendmail root aoeusnaohe 09:33:20/usr/sbin$ smail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC 09:33:43/home/krzys# cat /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC !root !0 1000 !-oem !-f !+ !-oMs !cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com !-oMr !bsmtp !-oMP !smail !krzys From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: krzys Subject: mail failed, returning to sender Reference: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |- Failed addresses follow: -| root ... unknown user |- Message text follows: | Received: from localhost (69 bytes) by cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com via sendmail with P:stdio/T:error (sender: krzys) (ident krzys using unix) id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for unknown; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 2000-Feb-23) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: krzys (Krzys Majewski) To: root aoeusnaohe 09:33:47/home/krzys# cd /var/spool/mail/ 09:34:22/var/spool/mail# la total 2 drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 1024 Mar 1 09:59 ./ drwxr-xr-x9 root root 1024 Jul 9 16:24 ../ -rw-rw-r--1 krzysmail0 Feb 6 11:58 krzys On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Mark Brown wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: 550 You are not permitted to send mail localhost isn't in the list of systems that smail will allow to forward mail through it. How you tell smail about that I don't know. What gives? The only reason I'm trying to set this up is so that things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised. Most things of that sort will use /usr/sbin/sendmail rather than SMTP to inject mail, bypassing this check. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:39:08AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either. Invoking the sendmail binary gets you the same MTA but it bypasses many of the checks MTAs perform It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to. 09:33:06/usr/sbin$ sendmail root aoeusnaohe I'm not surprised that failed - what you typed doesn't really approximate a valid message. Looking at the bounce that got generated and moved into the error directory it seems that smail can't figure out how to deliver to local users (the bounce said that it didn't know anything about a user root, and the non-delivery of the bounce would suggest that it couldn't find your user account either. You'll probably see some complaints in your mail logs (/var/log/mail.log unless smail doesn't use syslog). You should try reconfiguring smail - there's probably a program called smailconfig in /usr/sbin that will do that for you, or failing that removoing and reinstalling should do the trick. If smail doesn't configure itself I'd try another MTA (exim is the default choice for recent Debian versions). [BTW, could you please quote and trim your messages properly? It makes them much easier to read.] -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail
You should try reconfiguring smail - there's probably a program called smailconfig in /usr/sbin that will do that for you, or failing that removoing and reinstalling should do the trick. If smail doesn't configure itself I'd try another MTA (exim is the default choice for recent Debian versions). Aha, smailconfig. OK, I tried reinstalling smail before and now running smailconfig, same error. Guess I'll try exim next. [BTW, could you please quote and trim your messages properly? It makes them much easier to read.] Not sure what you mean by this, can you clarify? -chris
Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail
Bwahahaha upon removing smail apt-get installed sendmail which comes with its own e-z konfiguration skrypt and runs great. Can't see why anyone would want to use anything else. Can't see either why anyone would want to have a mail daemon on their box other than for mailing cron output, given that any isp will gladly do that boring shit for you. Unless of course you are an isp in which case Hello! why aren't you using Solaris. *bait* *bait* *bait* chris
Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:39:40PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Aha, smailconfig. OK, I tried reinstalling smail before and now running smailconfig, same error. Guess I'll try exim next. exim is the standard MTA for Debian these days - in fact, smail was removed from potato due to a number of severe bugs. [BTW, could you please quote and trim your messages properly? It makes them much easier to read.] Not sure what you mean by this, can you clarify? You should quote mails like you did this one, interspersing new text with old and cutting any quoted text not needed for context. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpVg6hUufqYu.pgp Description: PGP signature
smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail
Since everyone else is asking questions that are completely unrelated to Debian I'll do my bit and ask one that's only slightly related. I've got Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 with the default (ie empty) config files. Here's the problem: 09:54:21/etc/init.d# ./smail restart Restarting mail transport agent: smail. 09:54:25/etc/init.d# !tel telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to cr275960-a. Escape character is '^]'. 220-cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com Smail-3.2.0.102 (#2 2000-Feb-23) ready at Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:54:28 -0700 (PDT) 220 ESMTP supported helo crdva1.bc.wave.home.com 550 You are not permitted to send mail What gives? The only reason I'm trying to set this up is so that things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised. -chris
Re: smail says 550 You are not permitted to send mail
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: 550 You are not permitted to send mail localhost isn't in the list of systems that smail will allow to forward mail through it. How you tell smail about that I don't know. What gives? The only reason I'm trying to set this up is so that things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised. Most things of that sort will use /usr/sbin/sendmail rather than SMTP to inject mail, bypassing this check. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpTFjR2IhQYT.pgp Description: PGP signature
