Hi all,
I set my sendmail.mc file to have a SMART_HOST entry of mail.xyz.com I do "make" and "service sendmail restart" ... I should be good, but no. :)
If I do "host mail.xyz.com" I get the correct address and if I "telnet mail.xyz.com 25" I get a connection.
however when I do a test mail - its trying to RELAY to another host.
I thought SMART_HOST was the only one it would try to relay to? yes there is only one SMART_HOST in my file, and sendmail.cf shows the correct name.
How do I tell what is happening here? the maillog only shows it trying to relay to the wrong host, not the one I entered.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Jerry
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On 9/30/2015 9:32 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:
I set my sendmail.mc file to have a SMART_HOST entry of mail.xyz.com I do "make" and "service sendmail restart" ... I should be good, but no. :)
however when I do a test mail - its trying to RELAY to another host.
I thought SMART_HOST was the only one it would try to relay to? yes there is only one SMART_HOST in my file, and sendmail.cf shows the correct name.
By which you mean that sendmail.cf contains the line:
DSrelay:mail.xyz.com ?
SMART_HOST will relay mail to destinations for which it doesn't have explicit routing information.
Do you also have a mailertable defined which might include the recipient domain, for example?
How do I tell what is happening here? the maillog only shows it trying to relay to the wrong host, not the one I entered.
Try "sendmail -d60.5 -bv [user@example.com]" to see what might be going on with local address parsing.
- -- Nels Lindquist nlindq@maei.ca
By which you mean that sendmail.cf contains the line: DSrelay:mail.xyz.com ?
Yes that is correct.
SMART_HOST will relay mail to destinations for which it doesn't
have explicit routing information.
Do you also have a mailertable defined which might include the recipient
domain, for example? No there are no other entries in the mailertable or access files.
Try "sendmail -d60.5 -bv [user at example.com]" to see what might
be going on with local address parsing.
This looks OK. (names have been changed) sendmail -d60.5 -bv bob@address.com map_lookup(dequote, root, %0=root) => NOT FOUND (0) map_lookup(host, address.com, %0=address.com) => address.com. (0) map_lookup(mailertable, address.com, %0=address.com) => NOT FOUND (0) map_lookup(mailertable, .com, %0=.com, %1=address, %2=address) => NOT FOUND (0) map_lookup(mailertable, ., %0=., %1=address.com) => NOT FOUND (0) bob@address.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host mail.xyz.com, user bob@address.com
So nothing extra in any files - but then /var/log/maillog instread of relay to mail.xyz.com it goes somewhere else.
Thoughts? Thanks,
jerry
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:48:12 -0400 Jerry Geis wrote:
So nothing extra in any files - but then /var/log/maillog instread of relay to mail.xyz.com it goes somewhere else.
Where is "somewhere else" and what in what part of the sendmail configuration do you have somewhere else defined, listed or mentioned?
Le 2015/09/30 17:32 +0200, Jerry Geis a écrit:
Hi all,
I set my sendmail.mc file to have a SMART_HOST entry of mail.xyz.com I do "make" and "service sendmail restart" ... I should be good, but no. :)
As explained by others, SMART_HOST is used for domains for which it has no information (basically, it can't find an MX or resolve the name). If you want to relay all mail, you need to also add MAIL_HUB.
Laurent
Am 30.09.2015 um 22:18 schrieb Laurent Blume:
Le 2015/09/30 17:32 +0200, Jerry Geis a écrit:
Hi all,
I set my sendmail.mc file to have a SMART_HOST entry of mail.xyz.com I do "make" and "service sendmail restart" ... I should be good, but no. :)
As explained by others, SMART_HOST is used for domains for which it has no information (basically, it can't find an MX or resolve the name). If you want to relay all mail, you need to also add MAIL_HUB.
Sorry, that's not correct what you say about SMART_HOST.
define(`SMART_HOST', `host.domain.tld')dnl
is the right way to tell Sendmail to relay (the relay mailer is used implicitly) all outbound mail to that specified host.
But it is important to pay attention for the order of statements in the sendmail.mc configuration files, as one of the first chapters of the cf/README explains.
Laurent
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