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hothead
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 Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject: configure sendmail - (only for sending mail through smtp) |
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Hi,
Since I benefit from all the people that feed freedb.org with cd information I do want to
help in this process - unfortunately the complexity of sendmail bars me from doing so.
I do have a mail account that needs authentification (similar to web.de).
Would you be so kind to help me in configuring sendmail to simply send mail through smtp?
Thanks for your help.
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Ruben
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Sure. Create an /etc/mail/sendmail.mc similar to this (replacing mail.myisp.net with your ISP's mail server and myisp.net with your ISP's domain):
| Code: | OSTYPE(`linux')
define(`SMART_HOST', `esmtp:mail.myisp.net')dnl
undefine(`confTO_QUEUERETURN')dnl
undefine(`confTO_QUEUEWARN')dnl
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
FEATURE(`access_db', `hash /etc/mail/access')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`myisp.net')dnl
MAILER(`smtp')dnl |
Then run this command:
| Code: | | m4 /usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf |
and start sendmail:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/sendmail start |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the quick answer. But unfortenately it doesn't work at first go.
First two questions:
My ISP's mail server is 'mail.arcor.de' - so ISP domain should be 'arcor.de' - Right?
Where do I have to put the password and the username ? - ISP needs authentification before sending.
(I need to configure every mail-client (kmail, thunderbird) that way)
Sendmail takes quite a long time to start up:
| Code: | root@workstation [/home/ruben] time /etc/init.d/sendmail start
* Starting sendmail ... [ ok ]
real 1m20.787s
user 0m0.177s
sys 0m0.084s
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Messages say the following:
| Code: | Sep 5 21:22:05 workstation sm-cm[15169]: starting daemon (8.13.4): queueing@00:30:00
Sep 5 21:22:05 workstation sm-cm[15170]: j85Iwcsm030309: to=ruben, delay=00:23:26, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=212142, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Sep 5 21:22:05 workstation sm-cm[15170]: j85DDsXV011767: to=freedb-submit@freedb.org, ctladdr=ruben (1000/100), delay=06:08:11, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=300867, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Sep 5 21:22:55 workstation sendmail[16012]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.11) failed: 2
Sep 5 21:22:55 workstation sendmail[16012]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases rebuilt by ruben
Sep 5 21:22:55 workstation sendmail[16012]: /etc/mail/aliases: 21 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 221 bytes total
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-mta[17108]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.11) failed: 2
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-mta[17108]: sql_select option missing
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-mta[17108]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-mta[17108]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-mta[20199]: starting daemon (8.13.4): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-cm[20202]: starting daemon (8.13.4): queueing@00:30:00
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-mta[20204]: j85JNabZ020204: SYSERR(root): hash map "access": missing map file /etc/mail/access.db: No such file or directory
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-mta[20204]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=workstation.homelinux.pc, arg2=127.0.0.1, relay=workstation.homelinux.pc [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.3.0 Temporary system failure. Please try again later.
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-cm[20203]: j85Iwcsm030309: to=ruben, delay=00:24:57, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=302142, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.3.0 Temporary system failure. Please try again later.
Sep 5 21:23:36 workstation sm-cm[20203]: j85DDsXV011767: to=freedb-submit@freedb.org, ctladdr=ruben (1000/100), delay=06:09:42, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=390867, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.3.0 Temporary system failure. Please try again later. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Ah I didn't know that part 
You'll need to add the following to your sendmail.mc file:
| Code: | define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl |
There's a bit more to it, not much though, just defining your login and password. There's a really good step-by-step HOWTO that guides you through this (scroll down to the heading that says "Using sendmail as a client with AUTH". HTH.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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I followed the step by step howto but unfortunately it doesn't work anyway.
| Code: | Sep 5 23:26:24 workstation sm-mta[23139]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.11) failed: 2
Sep 5 23:26:24 workstation sm-cm[23157]: starting daemon (8.13.4): queueing@00:30:00
Sep 5 23:26:24 workstation sm-cm[23158]: j85Iwcsm030309: to=ruben, delay=02:27:45, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=842142, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Sep 5 23:26:24 workstation sm-cm[23158]: j85DDsXV011767: to=freedb-submit@freedb.org, ctladdr=ruben (1000/100), delay=08:12:30, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=930867, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
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Anny Suggestion?
Regards
Ruben
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Pete M
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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As of sendmail 8.12 you don't need
| Quote: | | FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl |
Authinfo is built into sendmail.cf
All you need to do is add
| Code: | | AuthInfo:smtp.myisp.com "U:smmsp" "I:username" "P:password" |
To /etc/mail/access
Where
smtp.myisp.com is your ISP mail server
Leave "U:smmsp" as is
"I:username" replace username with your own
"P:password" replace password with your own
On the command line as root run
| Code: | | # makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access |
To generate /etc/mail/access.db
Restart sendmail
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hothead
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Pete. That helps.
Sending the cddb information via grip works now. But I cannot send myself a testmail. I tried:
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echo "abc" | sendmail mailaddress@arcor.de
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Acording to another sendmail thread in the forums, that should work. Anny Suggestion?
It also seems that sending the mail takes some time. Is there a way to speed up the sending process?
Many thanks for all your help!!
Regards
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Pete M
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Ruben
Can you post me the contents of your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and your /etc/mail/submit.mc
Plus the contents of your /etc/mail/ directory
| Code: | | root# ls -a -l /etc/mail |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Content in 'sendmail.mc' are the default settings. ( I've nothing changed in there).
There is no 'submit.mc' in /etc/mail.
ls -l /etc/mail
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-rw------- 1 root root 276 6. Sep 00:18 access
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 6. Sep 00:24 access.db
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5588 5. Sep 23:01 helpfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 5. Sep 23:01 local-host-names
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40996 6. Sep 00:23 sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 357 6. Sep 00:18 sendmail.mc
-rw------- 1 root root 728 6. Sep 06:27 statistics
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 41137 5. Sep 23:01 submit.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 5. Sep 23:01 trusted-users
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cat sendmail.mc
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divert(-1)
divert(0)dnl
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
VERSIONID(`$Id: sendmail-procmail.mc,v 1.2 2004/12/07 01:59:31 g2boojum Exp $')dnl
OSTYPE(linux)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`/usr/sbin/mail.local')dnl
FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
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Pete M
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Ruben
papal_authority advised you to make lots of changes to sendmail.mc, just wanted to check your configuration files
To send mail from the command line use
| Code: | | echo "abc" | /usr/lib/sendmail mailaddress@arcor.de |
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hothead
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Finally I got sendmail starting up quickly. It seems to have resolving problems. After adding IP number of the NIC that's connected to the internet and hostname to /etc/hosts startup works fine.
But it seems that sendmail seems to be very fussy. With sendmail I'm not able to send mails to several german freemail providers (web.de gmx.de arcor.de). I read that sendmail is somehow blocked by them - Topic (german).
Can someone confirm this behaviour - or is the reason my special configuration?
Sendmail also fails when I try to send mail from kbugbuster with sendmail:
| Code: | Sep 7 14:56:17 workstation sendmail[10839]: j87CuGGe010839: to=102873@bugs.kde.org, ctladdr=ruben (1000/100), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30331, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j87CuHYA010840 Message accepted for delivery)
Sep 7 14:56:20 workstation sm-mta[10842]: j87CuHYA010840: to=<102873@bugs.kde.org>, ctladdr=<ruben@workstation.homelinux.pc> (1000/100), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=120572, relay=bugs.kde.org. [131.246.103.200], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
Sep 7 14:56:20 workstation sm-mta[10842]: j87CuHYA010840: j87CuKYA010842: DSN: Data format error
Sep 7 14:56:20 workstation sm-mta[10842]: j87CuKYA010842: to=<ruben@workstation.homelinux.pc>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31817, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
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