ORBS doesn't like me :(
Hi All, I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay. I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I would imagine it's that allow on the last line right? -=Andy "Duh" Meuse Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs. 'Oh, Shit,' Says Humanity www.theonion.com
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: Hi All, I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay. I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I would imagine it's that allow on the last line right? wrong. The relayclient variable isn't set in it. What do you have in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I would imagine it's that allow on the last line right? No, that just tells tcpserver whether to accept or reject the connection completely. What does /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts say? PGP signature
RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I would imagine it's that allow on the last line right? No, that just tells tcpserver whether to accept or reject the connection completely. What does /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts say?
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hi All, I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay. I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" Why the . (dot) after a complete IP adress? Could that be messing things up? Also, what does control/percenthack say? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
"Andy Meuse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay. I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I would imagine it's that allow on the last line right? You would imagine incorrectly, then. :-) That last line just says that your SMTP service is open to the public--which is SOP for SMTP servers. You must have some other problem, like a ~alias/.qmail-default that reroutes otherwise undeliverable mail to another host that implements % or ! addressing. The message from ORBS should contain the offending message, which should show the problem. -Dave
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay. Greetz, Peter. --
RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. Put it back. Any of the IP addresses in tcp.smtp will bypass it if the RELAYCLIENT variable is set. Vince. On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I would imagine it's that allow on the last line right? No, that just tells tcpserver whether to accept or reject the connection completely. What does /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts say? -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. There's your answer. You opened you relay to all domains when you did that. RC On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I just recieved an email from ORBS branding my mail server and open relay I looked in my tcp.smtp and I think I know why. 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I would imagine it's that allow on the last line right? No, that just tells tcpserver whether to accept or reject the connection completely. What does /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts say? -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | Novis - Engenharia ISP / Rede Técnica | Pç. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7º E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal | Tel: +351 21 010 - Fax: +351 21 011 PGP signature
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:08:15AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I put the rcpthosts back and all mail (local and remote) was returned undeliverable. However, I had also removed the :allow from my tcp.smtp so I don't know if that is the problem. Are the domains you *do* want to receive mail for in rcpthosts now? Greetz, Peter. -- [ircoper][EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk / Hardbeat [student]Undernet:#groningen/wallops | IRCnet:/#alliance [developer]_ [disbeliever - the world is backwards](__VuurWerk__(--*-
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay. That's always surprised me. I would have assumed that qmail would default to control/me if rcpthosts is empty. Any reason why it doesn't? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:08:15AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I put the rcpthosts back and all mail (local and remote) was returned undeliverable. However, I had also removed the :allow from my tcp.smtp so I don't know if that is the problem. It's not the problem. What are the contents of rcpthosts? What is the reason that the mail was returned as undeliverable? (Did it not occur to you to provide this information in the first place?) Chris
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Andy Meuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put the rcpthosts back and all mail (local and remote) was returned undeliverable. However, I had also removed the :allow from my tcp.smtp so I don't know if that is the problem. You need the :allow to let other servers on the net connect to your machine to deliver mail to you. rcpthosts should exist and contain domains for which you will accept mail -- typically the contents of the files 'locals' plus virtualdomains and perhaps a few others (backup MX, etc). Charles -- -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] QCC Communications Corporation Saskatoon, SK My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. --
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
I put the rcpthosts back and all mail (local and remote) was returned undeliverable. However, I had also removed the :allow from my tcp.smtp so I don't know if that is the problem. The lack of a rcpthosts file was *definitely* the problem. When you don't have this file, qmail's default behavior is to accept and relay email for the entire Internet. Having an ":allow" line in your tcp.smtp file won't affect your server's behavior one way or the other. This line tells tcpserver to accept connections from any remote host (besides those mentioned elsewhere in the tcp.smtp file), but don't modify any environment variables during the session (such as RELAYCLIENT). This is tcpserver's default behavior anyway, so the only reason to have this line is for the sake of readability. Note that allowing a host to make a connection is not the same thing as allowing that host to use your server as a relay. So, the short answer is, now that you have a rcpthosts file again, ORBS will stop blacklisting you. ---Kris Kelley
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Johan Almqvist wrote: | On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: | On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: | Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. | Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay. | | That's always surprised me. I would have assumed that qmail would | default to control/me if rcpthosts is empty. Any reason why it doesn't? I think this has been requested by some list users in the past, but it's not that big of a deal. All it does is secure someone from blowing their foot off on accident. Of course, with the behavior as default, them being put on antispam lists might be a worse "long term" effect, as it's hard to get off some of the lists to a newbie. Oh well, i guess it's punishment for not reading the docs properly -- ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC! _ / / / `__/ /_ / / / / / / /_/ / / /__ (505)439-0200/fax-437-3052 /_/ /_/\___/\__/ /_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/ \___/ http://www.netmdc.com [-[system info]---] 9:45am up 117 days, 15:48, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.18, 0.18
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:08:15AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I put the rcpthosts back and all mail (local and remote) was returned undeliverable. However, I had also removed the :allow from my tcp.smtp so I don't know if that is the problem. Ack! You are mighty confused. The 'allow' and 'deny' statements specify whether a tcp connection from a given IP address will be allowed or denied, not whether any messages passed over the connection will be accepted for delivery. rcpthosts is a list of domains for which your mailer will accept mail. You need to list the domains for which that machine should accept email. Take a look at the relaying doccumentation at http://www.qmail.org/, if you need to setup selective relaying (i.e. allowing certain people - your users - to use your machine to send their email) Regards, james -- James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster - IE TLD Hostmaster IE Domain Registry - www.domainregistry.ie - (+353 1) 706 2375 "Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Because you more often want a mail server to relay your mail than not to relay your mail. Why bother setting up rcpthosts if your server is firewalled off from the internet, being an internal mail handler/relay anyway? David -Original Message- From: Johan Almqvist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:51 AM To: Peter van Dijk; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ORBS doesn't like me :( On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay. That's always surprised me. I would have assumed that qmail would default to control/me if rcpthosts is empty. Any reason why it doesn't? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:51:11PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay. An empty rcpthosts != no rcpthosts at all. empty means "i don't take mail for any domain". No files mean "i don't limit any domain". And rcpthosts does not assume me if empty. man 8 qmail-smtpd for more info. RC -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | Novis - Engenharia ISP / Rede Técnica | Pç. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7º E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal | Tel: +351 21 010 - Fax: +351 21 011 PGP signature
RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(
I created a rcpthosts file populated with my domain. Now the error I'm recieving after sending remote mail is .. "No transport provider was available for delivery to this recipient." Local mail is unaffected. thx for all the replies, -Andy Here is a recap of my situation. ORBS says I'm an open relay. I had no rcpthosts file so there you go. When I create a rcpthosts file local users can't send remote mail. You need the :allow to let other servers on the net connect to your machine to deliver mail to you. I thought I read that the :allow is redundant since the default is to allow any connection? rcpthosts should exist and contain domains for which you will accept mail -- typically the contents of the files 'locals' plus virtualdomains and perhaps a few others (backup MX, etc). Charles
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 5 September 2000 at 17:51:11 +0200 On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay. That's always surprised me. I would have assumed that qmail would default to control/me if rcpthosts is empty. Any reason why it doesn't? So far as I remember the discussion back some time ago, no, there isn't any particular reason. Dan just wrote it the other way. -- Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon Bookworms: http://ouroboros.demesne.com/ SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: this is my tcp.smtp file 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow How are you creating tcp.smtp.cdb ? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Vince, please don't try to telnet into my mail server anymore. :( Sep 5 14:31:42 qmail in.telnetd[6995]: refused connect from 209.103.136.12 -Andy -Original Message- From: Vince Vielhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:34 PM To: Andy Meuse Cc: Qmail (E-mail) Subject: RE: ORBS doesn't like me :( On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: this is my tcp.smtp file 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow How are you creating tcp.smtp.cdb ? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: Vince, please don't try to telnet into my mail server anymore. :( I was going to try sending you mail directly to it with telnet, I missed the 25 at the end command line and ^D out of it. Believe me, it wasn't intentional. Vince. Sep 5 14:31:42 qmail in.telnetd[6995]: refused connect from 209.103.136.12 -Andy -Original Message- From: Vince Vielhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:34 PM To: Andy Meuse Cc: Qmail (E-mail) Subject: RE: ORBS doesn't like me :( On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: this is my tcp.smtp file 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow How are you creating tcp.smtp.cdb ? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com == -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Quoting Andy Meuse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I created a rcpthosts file populated with my domain. Now the error I'm recieving after sending remote mail is .. "No transport provider was available for delivery to this recipient." Heh.. that doesn't say anything. That's an Outlookism that it spits out when it really does not know what is going on (like all of the time). "No transport provider .." bah! If you could provide the actual error message that qmail-smtpd spits out, and that reasonable mailers will show you, that certainly would help a lot. In any case, the problem is (almost) certainly that RELAYCLIENT is not set for the connection, hence qmail does not allow you to relay to any domain not in rcpthosts. Aaron
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I reconfigured tcprules and now everything is fine. I think I had edited the tcp.smtp and it never occured to me to rerun tcprules, that or the "-c 50" in the tcpserver command line below was effin it up. exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 400 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 50 -u503 -g502 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 Anyway, thanks for the pointers everyone. -=Andy -Original Message- From: Vince Vielhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 3:20 PM To: Andy Meuse Cc: 'Qmail (E-mail)' Subject: RE: ORBS doesn't like me :( On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: Vince, please don't try to telnet into my mail server anymore. :( I was going to try sending you mail directly to it with telnet, I missed the 25 at the end command line and ^D out of it. Believe me, it wasn't intentional. Vince. Sep 5 14:31:42 qmail in.telnetd[6995]: refused connect from 209.103.136.12 -Andy -Original Message- From: Vince Vielhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:34 PM To: Andy Meuse Cc: Qmail (E-mail) Subject: RE: ORBS doesn't like me :( On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: this is my tcp.smtp file 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow How are you creating tcp.smtp.cdb ? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com == -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:19:34PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: Vince, please don't try to telnet into my mail server anymore. :( I was going to try sending you mail directly to it with telnet, I missed the 25 at the end command line and ^D out of it. Believe me, it wasn't intentional. I believe you. That happens to me all the time :) Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Quoted from Peter van Dijk: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:19:34PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: I was going to try sending you mail directly to it with telnet, I missed the 25 at the end command line and ^D out of it. Believe me, it wasn't intentional. I believe you. That happens to me all the time :) That's why you use tcpclient: it doesn't have a default port. :-) ---Chris K. -- Chris, the Young One |_ but what's a dropped message between friends? Auckland, New Zealand |_ this is UDP, not TCP after all ;) ---John H. http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ Robinson, IV
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:44:22AM -0700, Ihnen, David wrote: Why bother setting up rcpthosts if your server is firewalled off from the internet, being an internal mail handler/relay anyway? There are cases where people intentionally want to create open relays, and there should be a mechanism to allow that. But AFAIC the current method makes it too easy to shoot oneself in the foot. Too often people take the premise that "rcpthosts lists the domains to accept mail for" (to paraphrase) and use that to make the conclusion that "no rcpthosts means accepting mail for no domains". While it is incorrect, it's not an entirely off-the-wall thought progression. Regards, james -- James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster - IE TLD Hostmaster IE Domain Registry - www.domainregistry.ie - (+353 1) 706 2375 "Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: | Here is a recap of my situation. ORBS says I'm an open relay. I had no | rcpthosts file so there you go. When I create a rcpthosts file local users | can't send remote mail. You need to read LWQ, and specifically, the section on selective relaying. http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html | I thought I read that the :allow is redundant since the default is to allow | any connection? It is redundant. It's put in there to be syntaxtically correct in case the default behavior changes in the future. -- ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC! _ / / / `__/ /_ / / / / / / /_/ / / /__ (505)439-0200/fax-437-3052 /_/ /_/\___/\__/ /_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/ \___/ http://www.netmdc.com [-[system info]---] 10:50am up 117 days, 16:53, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.16, 0.16
Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
Andy Meuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created a rcpthosts file populated with my domain. Now the error I'm recieving after sending remote mail is .. "No transport provider was available for delivery to this recipient." Local mail is unaffected. I'm not familiar with this error message. What was the recipient address, what is your local domain, what is the contents of rcpthosts and locals, ... You need the :allow to let other servers on the net connect to your machine to deliver mail to you. I thought I read that the :allow is redundant since the default is to allow any connection? Yes, my bad. It is the default. I just like being explicit in tcp rules files. Charles -- -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] QCC Communications Corporation Saskatoon, SK My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. --
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Yep, I have the locals set up with my domain(s). Since I have been an open relay, and then when I create a rcpthosts file it seems SMTP rejects me, I suppose my tcprules or tcpserver or both are configured incorrectly. Again here is the error message. "No transport provider was available for delivery to this recipient." I was sending local to hotmail account, and also tried other external addresses. (Yahoo, Juno etc.) this is my tcp.smtp file 172.16.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 4.17.165.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.244.122.53.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow The mail server is on the 4.17.165.0 network Users are on the 172.16.3.0 network Here are the commands I run qmail from in rc.local # starts Qmail basics /bin/csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' # Starts pop3 server from tcpserver /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail.buyerzone.com \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d #This modifies the qmail-queue for qmail virus scan #QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl" export QMAILQUEUE # Tcpserver with relaying rules found in /etc/tcp.smtp exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 400 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 50 -u503 -g502 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 Hmmm. Should the -c 50 be right after tcpserver? rcpthosts locals read... buyerzone.com buyerszone.com mail.buyerzone.com mail.buyerszone.com qmail.buyerzone.com qmail.buyerszone.com Thanks again, Andy And yes I've read the FAQ and LWQ so much my eyes hurt. I did have problems getting qmail to run using daemontools (RCDIR config I think) so I inserted the startup commands into rc.local. Andy Meuse schrieb: do you have your domain in ~/control/locals too? you will need that for qmail to realize that mails for your domain should be delivered locally and *not* passed on elsewhere. wolfgang I created a rcpthosts file populated with my domain. Now the error I'm recieving after sending remote mail is .. "No transport provider was available for delivery to this recipient." Local mail is unaffected. thx for all the replies, -Andy
