Setting up sendmail part 2

Shane Presley shane.presley at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 12:38:06 UTC 2004


Thanks everyone for the great help with my problem yesterday!  You
were of course correct.  I have modified sendmail.mc to use
DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp, Name=MTA and my server now accepts
connections on port 25!

So if I telnet from our internal networks exchange server to my fedora
box port 25, I get an connection from sendmail.

But I'm still having some strange problems.  When I try to send mail
to my fedora box, I never seem to receive it.  I have tried sending
mail to root at mylinuxbox.mydomain.com or bb at mylinubox.mydomain.com
(which is an account on the server).

If I run tcpdump I see our exchange server connect to deliver it.  And
it appears to?  Here's a small sample:

08:35:18.666064 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 127, id 20657, offset 0, flags [DF],
proto 6, length: 52) exchange.mydomain.com.smtp > mylinuxbox.46818: F
[tcp sum ok] 130:130(0) ack 7 win 64234 <nop,nop,timestamp 26319854
149656531>
08:35:18.666424 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 44455, offset 0, flags [DF],
proto 6, length: 52) mylinuxbox.46818 > exchange.mydomain.com.smtp: F
[tcp sum ok] 7:7(0) ack 131 win 5840 <nop,nop,timestamp 149656533
26319854>
08:35:18.666719 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 127, id 20658, offset 0, flags [DF],
proto 6, length: 52) exchange.mydomain.com.smtp > mylinuxbox.46818: .
[tcp sum ok] 131:131(0) ack 8 win 64234 <nop,nop,timestamp 26319854
149656533>

But I never see anything in /var/spool/mail/ for root or bb.

Looking in logs, nothing in /var/log/message.  /var/log/maillog shows
entries for when I send mail out from my box (that works).  But no
entries are made when my exchange server tries to deliver mail to me.

I really have no idea what the problem is.  Possibly something with my
domain name?  Does my fedora box "know" that the mail is really for
it?  If so, where does it put it.

I might switch to postfix, but I feel like I am close.  Thanks again everyone,
Shane




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