Hi Sluggers,
(this is about a mail problem, which is why it's not from my normal address)
I have upgraded our firewall from Debian Potato to Woody finally. Everything
went smoothly apart from mail.
We have smtpd installed which accepts the connections from outside,
and sendmail which smtpfwdd (part of the smtpd package) calls to
send the mail onwards and inwards.
The problem manifests itself this way:
MSP Queue status...
/var/spool/mqueue-client (462 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
h8T303v4017724 144336 Mon Sep 29 13:00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Deferred: Connection refused by [192.168.1.2])
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<snip>
The MSP feature is controlled by /etc/mail/submit.mc
the default version of the file had:
FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]', `MSA')dnl
so all my mailq had "connection refused by [127.0.0.1]"
I searched the faq and found Q3.44 which suggested using:
FEATURE(`msp', `smart_host')dnl
instead of the default
FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl
so I tried that but got similar results (Deferred: Connection refused by
beast.switchonline.com.au)
and now I've tried:
FEATURE(`msp', `[192.168.1.2]')dnl
to get the output above.
telnet beast 25
and
telnet 192.168.1.2 25
give the expected result
220 beast.switchonline.com.au ESMTP Postfix
and logging in beast's mail log.
Sendmail doesn't appear to be trying to contact beast, the are
no log messages on beast from gambit (the firewall) apart
from my telnet 25 attempts.
Mail is working internally via beast.
any ideas?
cheers,
Woody
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