Re: sendmail problem

[Michael Sullivan]

First of all, I'm using evolution as the client.  I have no idea what
you mean by mechs, but I guess I'm using whatever the Fedora Core
default is, unless that is altered in /etc/mail, and I have no idea what
'saslauthd' is.  I checked the dates on the files in /etc/mail against
the dates in my backed up /etc/mail from the server PC and found that I
had not extracted them over correctly.  I have now fixed that.  Now when
I try to send mail from outside my domain to inside it, I get the mail
returned from my domain's postmaster saying

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

    (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
553 5.3.5 espersunited.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX
problem?)
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

Please don't flame me.  I'm under a lot of stress.  This network is all
I have and it's not working right at the moment.  I'll try to delete all
traces of replying to other threads in the future, but I can't use
evolution's address book because the address-book backend crashes every
time I try to use it (a topic to be saved for a different thread) and I
can't be expected to remember email addresses for the twenty or so
mailing lists I'm subscribed to...

-Michael Sullivan-

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 11:44, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 18:27:
>
> First: Please do not hijack foreign threads! Do not reply to list mails
> while you want to start a new topic. Use then a new empty mail editor
> window.
>
> You mailing now appears in a "wonderfully" mixed up thread :( Within
> "FC1 mouse freezing" and "iptables problem".
> > OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> > address to [e-mail] (my primary email address under my
> > domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
> >
> > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> > each recipient was rejected.
> > Recipient: <[e-mail]>
> > Reason:    5.7.1 <[e-mail]>... Relaying denied.
> >
> > Proper authentication required.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/relayingdenied.html
> > Also, whenever I try to send email from [e-mail] I get
> > this error:
> >
> > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> > Bad authentication response from server.
> >
> > Please enter the SMTP password for [e-mail]
>
> Obviously the authentification fails. Which mechs do you allow on server
> side and which client  do you use?
> > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> > client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> > RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC. 
> > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> > /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > -Michael Sullivan-
>
> You always have to start by looking at the logs. That is a general rule.
> Sendmail logs by using syslogd to /var/log/maillog. There you will find
> the information you need to solve your problem. Maybe increase the log
> level.
>
> As a wild guess - due to lacking both log file entries related to the
> problem as well as sendmail.mc settings - I assume you do not have
> saslauthd running?
>
> Alexander