Please past the output of this command: Sendmail -v username@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: test . (ie, -v will give verbose output, type in the Subject line as shown, and then on the newline, put a period character, and push enter, then it should Start the connection and you'll get the output. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 2:34 a.m. To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: sendmail configuration Gef, Please find the o/p below: telnet mx 25 Trying 192.168.5.26... Connected to mx.<domain>.com (192.168.5.26). Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx.<domain>.com ESMTP Postfix Thanks, Kalyan On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Please confirm that you can talk to the relay server on port 25. You can > use the telnet program to do this: > > # telnet mailserver 25 > > - you should get a banner, please paste the output here. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar > Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:59 a.m. > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: sendmail configuration > > Gef, > Even the sendmail.cf reflects the same value. > > -kalyan > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Geofrey Rainey > <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > Okay, and what is the value in your sendmail.cf? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar > > Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:53 a.m. > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > Subject: Re: sendmail configuration > > > > below is the entry i got in submit.cf . I have just blanked out domain > > name. > > > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > > DSmx.<domainname>.com > > > > Thanks, > > Kalyan > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Geofrey Rainey > > <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > > > Please paste here exactly what the "DS" directive line says in > > > submit.cf. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar > > > Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:12 a.m. > > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > > Subject: Re: sendmail configuration > > > > > > Hi Gef, > > > Thanks once again. > > > > > > yes... after the configuration mailer=esmtp got changed to > > mailer=relay > > > but > > > the relay is still pointing to root@localhost > > > > > > relay=root@localhost . How do I point relay to my smtp server. > kindly > > > advice. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > kalyan > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Geofrey Rainey > > > <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > > > > > After you've made those changes, search inside the newly created > > file > > > > for: > > > > > > > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > > > > DSrelay-name.domain.com <http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> < > http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> < > > http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> < > > > http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> > > > > > > > > What do you find? > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:29 p.m. > > > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > > > Subject: Re: sendmail configuration > > > > > > > > Hi Gef, > > > > Thanks a lot for your inputs. > > > > > > > > I made below mentioned changes to the submit.mc and configured > > > > submit.cf. > > > > > > > > But still the sendmail uses the relay=root@localhost and the > > > stat=queued > > > > , > > > > mailer=esmtp. > > > > > > > > yes, I just need to send mails .please let me know if i am missing > > any > > > > other > > > > configurations > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > kalyan > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Geofrey Rainey > > > > <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Are you using mail to both receive and send, or only send? > > > > > > > > > > If you're using it to only send mail, then do the following: > > > > > > > > > > Go to /etc/mail, here you should find a file called submit.mc > > > > > > > > > > Edit this file and update the parameter and add something like > > this > > > > > anywhere to the file: > > > > > > > > > > define('SMART_HOST','relay.domain.com')dnl > > > > > > > > > > And if there's an entry containing something like 'SMTP', > > > '127.0.0.1' > > > > > etc, comment it out by preceding it with dnl (or removing it or > > > > > whatever). > > > > > > > > > > Then type the following: > > > > > > > > > > # m4 submit.mc > submit.cf > > > > > > > > > > (You'll need to ensure two packages are installed for this, > > > > sendmail-cf > > > > > and m4) > > > > > > > > > > If you're using sendmail to receive mail, submit sendmail.mc/cf > > for > > > > each > > > > > submit.mc/cf above, then restart sendmail. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan > Sundar > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 10:58 p.m. > > > > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > > > > Subject: sendmail configuration > > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > I am trying to configure sendmail on Linux server. > > > > > > > > > > After the configuration the maillog show below message: > > > > > > > > > > Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924: > > from=root, > > > > > size=70, > > > > > class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=< > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U > > > > > s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/> < > http://3e.domain.com/> < > > http://3e.domain.com/> < > > > http://3e.domain.com/> < > > > > http://3e.domain.com/>>>, > > > > > relay=root@localhost > > > > > Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924: > > > > > to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com <to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>, > > > > > delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30070, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued > > > > > Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927: > > from=root, > > > > > size=83, > > > > > class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=< > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U > > > > > s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/> < > http://3e.domain.com/> < > > http://3e.domain.com/> < > > > http://3e.domain.com/> < > > > > http://3e.domain.com/>>>, > > > > > relay=root@localhost > > > > > Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927: > > > > > to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com <to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>, > > > > > delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30083, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued > > > > > The mail status is showing as queued which makes me think that > > the > > > > > sendmail > > > > > configuarion is not properly done. > > > > > > > > > > how to I make the existing mail=esmtp to mailer=relay and > > > > > relay=root@localhost to relay=<smtpserver.domain.com> > > > > > > > > > > I am new to this topic. 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