Re: Dial-up PC: sendmail doesn't send mails

[Jacob Meuser <jakemsr_(_at_)_clipper_(_dot_)_net>]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:58:21PM +0200, Alex Farber wrote:
> 
> Are you sure, that I have to add the "-bd" flag if I only
> want to being able to send mails? (I fetch my mails from
> POP3-box using fetchmail+procmail+mutt). 

The way I understand it, fetchmail sends mail to localhost.  You need
'-bd' to be able to recieve the mail.

> 
> My second question is, why do I get
> 
>     Aug 12 13:37:21 pref sendmail[1388]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.1) failed: 1 

You should add the line :
lookup file bind
to /etc/hosts.

You might also want to add the line:
 enable dns
to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.

I'm a little curious about where the 192.168.1.1 came from.  If you have
a NIC with that address, you should add a relevant line to /etc/hosts.

> 
>         pref:alex {104} cp /usr/share/sendmail/cf/openbsd-proto.mc ~
> 
>     Then edited that file to add mailto.t-online.de (SMTP-server of my ISP):
> 
I would suggest starting with elbereth.mc.  It's a good example of
define ('SMART_HOST').  


> 	pref:alex {104} cat ./openbsd-proto.mc 
> 	divert(-1)
> 	# ....
> 	divert(0)dnl
> 	VERSIONID(`@(#)openbsd-proto.mc $Revision: 1.3 $')
> 	OSTYPE(openbsd)
> 	FEATURE(nouucp, `reject')
> 	MAILER(local)
> 	MAILER(smtp)
> 	DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, address=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA')dnl
> 	DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet6, address=::, Name=MTA6, M=O')dnl
> 	
> 	define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp:mailto.t-online.de')
> 	MASQUERADE_AS(`t-online.de')
> 	FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
> 	
> 	dnl
> 	dnl Enforce valid Message-Id to help stop spammers
> 	dnl
> 	LOCAL_RULESETS
> 	HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId
> 
> 	SCheckMessageId
> 	R< $+ @ $+ >            $@ OK
> 	R$*                     $#error $: 553 Header Error
> 
>     Then ran m4 on it:
> 
>         pref:alex {105} m4 /usr/share/sendmail/m4/cf.m4 openbsd-proto.mc > sendmail.cf
> 
>     Then edited sendmail.cf and removed the comment from the line
> 
>         # 8-bit data handling
> 	O EightBitMode=pass8
>  
>     (since I'd like to be able to send cyrillic koi8-r messages).
> 
>     And then copied that file to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf 
>     and sent kill -HUP to the sendmail process.
> 
>     Now it seems to work, but I get the following in the maillog:
> 
> 	Aug 12 13:37:21 pref sendmail[1388]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.1) failed: 1 
> 	Aug 12 13:37:22 pref sendmail[1388]: f7CBbMb01388: from=alex, size=382, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<20010812133721_(_dot_)_A1170_(_at_)_pref>, relay=alex_(_at_)_localhost
> 	Aug 12 13:37:23 pref sendmail[29700]: f7CBbMb01388: to=alex_(_at_)_kawo2_(_dot_)_rwth-aachen_(_dot_)_de, ctladdr=alex (1000/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=smtp, pri=30382, relay=fwdallmx.sul.t-online.de. [194.25.134.25], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Message accepted.)
> 
>     If it matters, here's what I have in /etc/hosts
>     
> 	pref:log {105} cat /etc/hosts
> 	# ...
> 	::1             localhost localhost.my.domain
> 	127.0.0.1       localhost pref
>         #192.168.254.254        noname
> 
>     And here is my external interface:
> 
> 	pref:log {106} ifconfig tun0
> 	tun0: flags=11<UP,POINTOPOINT> mtu 1490
> 		inet 217.82.203.112 --> 217.5.98.52 netmask 0xffffff00 
> 

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