On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:40:42PM -0400, Duane Winner wrote:
I am getting this in my /var/log/maillog:
Apr 23 15:23:39 library sm-mta[169]: i3NJNd8g000169: localhost
[127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Which means that the Java side did not issue any SMTP commands after
connecting and issuing an EHLO or HELO. Which perhaps indicates that
the sendmail side didn't respond with the expected
'250-smtp.example.com Hello ...' and following list of capabilities in
response.
What do you see if you telnet to localhost port 25 and then type in an
EHLO command? It should look something like this, although you
probably won't have the AUTH or STARTTLS parts unless you've modified
your sendmail:
% telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Sat, 24 Apr 2004
08:59:29 +0100 (BST)
EHLO localhost
250-smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
quit
221 2.0.0 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
Nb. That sequence generates precisely the sort of log message you saw:
Apr 24 08:59:41 happy-idiot-talk sm-mta[8543]: i3O7xTra008543: localhost
[127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4
when my Tomcat serlvets attempt to send an email from my web app.
I only want sendmail listing on 127.0.0.1:25, and the web app is
configured to use 127.0.0.1 as it's mail server. It works fine on my Red
Hat implementation, but I'm guessing FreeBSD sendmail is tightened up
even more.
I know that sendmail is working, because I can use the 'mail' MUA and
send myself a quick email.
I'm guessing this is a little different that just going #mail blahblah,
because I'm doing mail relaying? But why would sendmail be denying mail
relaying from itself (localhost).
Is this fairly simple to address? I know its probably stupid, but I
haven't played with sendmail in about 3 years, and never completely
understood then either.
Hmmm... in server.xml I have:
Resource name=mail/Session auth=Container
type=javax.mail.Session/
ResourceParams name=mail/Session
parameter
namemail.smtp.host/name
valuesmtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/value
/parameter
parameter
namemail.smtp.port/name
value587/value
/parameter
/ResourceParams
and in the per-application web.xml there is:
resource-ref
res-ref-namemail/Session/res-ref-name
res-typejavax.mail.Session/res-type
res-authContainer/res-auth
/resource-ref
and that seems to work very well. This is from within a jail, and
speaking to sendmail in the host environment, which is why it can't
use a connection via localhost. Port 587 is 'submission' -- the port
designated for local submission on new messages by the MUA,
distinguishing it from port 25 intended now for MTA to MTA transfer of
messages. However, that's a new standard that has not yet reached
universal acceptance, so speaking on port 25 should work as well.
Cheers,
Matthew
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