Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent
chip.wiegand at simrad.com
chip.wiegand at simrad.com
Thu Nov 6 14:51:38 PST 2003
owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote on 11/06/2003 01:40:52 PM:
> Just out of curiosity have you used nslookup to check if MX records are
> resolving ok?
Here are some nslookup results -
simradusa# nslookup www.simrad.com
Server: ussea01.simrad.net.int
Address: 157.237.65.101
Name: simrad.com
Address: 193.69.73.8
Aliases: www.simrad.com
simradusa# nslookup www.yahoo.com
Server: ussea01.simrad.net.int
Address: 157.237.65.101
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.yahoo.akadns.net
Addresses: 66.218.71.89, 66.218.71.92, 66.218.71.94, 66.218.71.80
66.218.70.49, 66.218.71.87, 66.218.71.91, 66.218.71.84
Aliases: www.yahoo.com
simradusa# nslookup www.wiegand.org
Server: ussea01.simrad.net.int
Address: 157.237.65.101
Name: www.wiegand.org
Address: 66.114.131.10
> Have you checked the logs?
Here is a small part of the maillog -
Nov 6 14:35:25 simradusa sm-mta[4328]: hA4Gc7wG000649:
to=<carvin5string at yahoo.com>, ctladdr=<a
utopilots at simradusa.com> (1001/1001), delay=2+05:57:15, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=97503
50, relay=mx4.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed
out with mx4.mail.yahoo
.com.
Nov 6 14:35:25 simradusa sm-mta[4328]: hA4GXHwG000641:
to=<chip.wiegand at simrad.com>, ctladdr=<a
utopilots at simradusa.com> (1001/1001), delay=2+06:02:06, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=97503
50, relay=mx3.eunet.no., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out
with mx3.eunet.no.
Nov 6 14:35:25 simradusa sm-mta[4328]: hA4FCFdC099301:
to=<carvin5string at yahoo.com>, ctladdr=<a
utopilots at simradusa> (1001/1001), delay=2+07:23:09, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=10110338,
relay=mx4.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out
with mx4.mail.yahoo.co
m.
Nov 6 14:35:25 simradusa sm-mta[4328]: hA4F8udC099278:
to=<chip.wiegand at simrad.com>, ctladdr=<a
utopilots at simradusa> (1001/1001), delay=2+07:26:29, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=10200338,
relay=mx3.eunet.no., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with
mx3.eunet.no.
(END)
> Does your host have forward and reverse dns working correctly and they
match?
I don't know how to verify this.
> Mail servers often reject mail coming from machines without proper dns
entries. DNS > not working right means much more than just can i resolve
a site on the box.
--
Chip
> On Nov 6, 2003, at 3:41 PM, chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:
>
> > I've got to get this working. The suggestion that DNS is not working
> > right
> > can't be correct, I can browse the web and do traceroutes to named
> > sites
> > without a problem. The emails sent from the command line mail never
> > arrive
> > at the destination. I don't know what to check/fix to make it work. At
> > the
> > bottom is all the screen messages of a mail and traceroute.
> > TIA,
> > --
> > Chip
> >
> > owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote on 11/04/2003 10:29:18 AM:
> >
> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if DNS is not working, I would not be
> >> able
> > to
> >> do a traceroute to a domain name, right? But rather only to an ip
> > address?
> >> But I can do traceroute to a domain name, and browse the web, by
name.
> > Is
> >> this right or not?
> >> Thanks,
> >> --
> >> Chip W
> >>
> >> Steve Hovey <shovey at buffnet.net> wrote on 11/04/2003 09:04:26 AM:
> >>
> >>> Looks to me like you dont have DNS workin right - everything
resolves
> > to
> >>> your local host instead of gettin the correct MX records.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I just set up a new box with fbsd-5.1 and it appears that the email
> >> never
> >>>> leaves the box, or at least it never arrives at its intended
> >> destination.
> >>>> I have set up previous versions of freebsd and never had a problem
> >> sending
> >>>> mail with out any configuration of sendmail. The machine does
> > connect
> >> and
> >>>> browse the internet. My rc.conf has sendmail_enable=NO. So it
should
> >
> >> be
> >>>> able to send, but not receive, which is what I want.I have included
> >> the
> >>>> mail -v messages below. I have tried to send to 4 different
> > addresses,
> >>
> >>>> including the freebsd-test list, no messages show up at any
> > addresses.
> >>>> Any idea why mail is not being sent?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Chip W
> >>>> Simrad, Inc
> >>>> --------------------------------------
> > -bash-2.05b$ mail -v -s test carvin5string at yahoo.com
> > test
> > .
> > EOT
> > carvin5string at yahoo.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
> > 220 simradusa.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.9; Thu, 6 Nov 2003
> > 12:20:53
> > -0800 (PST)
> >>>> EHLO simradusa.com
> > 250-simradusa.com Hello localhost.simrad.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to
> > meet
> > you
> > 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> > 250-PIPELINING
> > 250-8BITMIME
> > 250-SIZE
> > 250-DSN
> > 250-ETRN
> > 250-DELIVERBY
> > 250 HELP
> >>>> MAIL From:<autopilots at simradusa.com> SIZE=48
> > 250 2.1.0 <autopilots at simradusa.com>... Sender ok
> >>>> RCPT To:<carvin5string at yahoo.com>
> >>>> DATA
> > 250 2.1.5 <carvin5string at yahoo.com>... Recipient ok
> > 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> >>>> .
> > 250 2.0.0 hA6KKrBZ004086 Message accepted for delivery
> > carvin5string at yahoo.com... Sent (hA6KKrBZ004086 Message accepted for
> > delivery)
> > Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
> >>>> QUIT
> > 221 2.0.0 simradusa.com closing connection
> > -bash-2.05b$ traceroute www.yahoo.com
> > traceroute: Warning: www.yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using
> > 216.109.118.77
> > traceroute to www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.109.118.77), 64 hops max, 40
> > byte
> > packets
> > 1 157.237.65.200 (157.237.65.200) 0.585 ms 0.442 ms 0.396 ms
> > 2 * * *
> > 3 Loopback0.GW7.SEA1.ALTER.NET (137.39.2.41) 6.646 ms 4.957 ms
> > 7.705
> > ms
> > 4 146.ATM3-0.XR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.170) 5.021 ms 5.372 ms
> > 5.032 ms
> > 5 0.so-0-0-0.XL1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.106.225) 5.117 ms 5.354 ms
> > 5.442 ms
> > 6 POS6-0.BR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.17) 9.381 ms 5.093 ms
> > 6.418
> > ms
> > 7 pos6-3.hsa2.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.0.227.153) 5.413 ms 5.258
ms
> > 6.232 ms
> > 8 ge-6-1-1.mp2.Seattle1.level3.net (209.247.9.85) 5.777 ms 5.528
ms
> > 6.340 ms
> > 9 so-2-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.level3.net (209.247.10.130) 70.657 ms
> > 70.971 ms 74.569 ms
> > 10 gige9-2.ipcolo1.Washington1.Level3.net (64.159.18.163) 70.584 ms
> > 70.999 ms 70.339 ms
> > 11 unknown.Level3.net (63.210.59.254) 71.428 ms 71.252 ms 71.040
ms
> > 12 vl30.bas1-m.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.120.142) 71.191 ms 72.190 ms
> > 71.138 ms
> > 13 p14.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.77) 71.915 ms 71.698 ms
> > 71.491
> > ms
> > -bash-2.05b$
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