Sendmail

makeconnection (gmail domain.com[1.2.3.4]) failed: Invalid argument
I am seeing very weird message in /var/log/maillog. When I send an email, I see that error message (makeconnection xxxxxxx failed: Invalid argument). For gmail, usuallay the email goes through, but I see error message. For yahoo, usually sendmail keeps trying, sometimes goes through, sometimes delay very long (def... 5 Aug 2008 16:18

DSN: Service unavailable
Hi, I'm setting up my website at my debian server, and I can't get sendmail to send mails to some addresses (using a php script). It gives an error: DSN: Service unavailable. /var/log/mail after trying to send a mail from lennart(a)dlnet.nl to lennartackermans(a)gmail.com: Jul 26 20:34:02 lenserver sendmail[2742]:... 28 Jul 2008 14:07

sendmail log question?
I'm running Fedora 9 with sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8. I'm also running denyhosts which puts SSH hacker's IPs in deny.hosts. I'm getting a log entry I don't understand; **Unmatched Entries** warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 2305: can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(196-201-135-143.iwayafrica.com, AF_INET) fai... 23 Jul 2008 16:23

daemon MTA-IPv4: Problem creating SMTP socket?
I have searched the archives and found many similar problems but I can't seem to resolve my issue through them. When I run something like '/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m &' I get the message ... [ID 702911 mail.alert] daemon MTA-IPv4: Problem creating SMTP socket (repeated several times) ..... [ID 801593 mail.al... 9 Jul 2008 00:23

confHELO_NAME
The feature HeloName is new with 8.14. Is there anyway to configure this in version 8.13? If not, is there another way to control the host name that v. 8.13 sends with the HELO command? We're running Red Hat Enterprise, and they are not yet distributing v. 8.14. ... 30 Jun 2008 12:43

Don't check domains in addresses
We have an smtp gateway that processes all incoming mail, and re-sends what passes filtering to the backend imap hosts. The backends' access.db tells them to accept mail only from the smtp gateway. I want the backends to skip checking addresses. It's a waste of time since that's just been done by the smtp gatew... 14 Apr 2008 15:24

Really need help on sendmail mailertable and only one email address relay.
I use the mailertable for several of my domains to route mail to a specific smtp host. mailertable: ..junk.com smtp:[192.168.1.2] ..junk2.com smtp:[192.168.1.2] ..happy.com smtp:[192.168.1.3] The problem I have is: I need a solution to route two specific email addresses to another relay. example: ... 8 Apr 2008 14:04

cyrus + smmapd without patching sendmail?
I'm currently getting mailbombed with bounce messages because of the interaction between cyrus and sendmail (sendmail accepts spam message for unknown user, passes message to cyrus, cyrus rejects message, sendmail bounces back to non-existent address forged by spammer, remote mail server sends bounce message to the... 31 Mar 2008 19:20

Sendmail complaining about "world writable"
Hi, folks. This morning, sendmail (8.14.2-1.1 running on CentOS 4.6) barfed. When i tried to start the server, it threw the following error: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 91: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/ mail/local-host-names': World writable directory I also got a similar error regarding /etc/mail/... 1 Feb 2008 00:46

Sendmail / Milter problem
I have sendmail running with a custom milter and noticed that occasionaly sendmail doesn't call the milter but passes the mail through. The times I have seen this happen the maillog appears to have two "from=<" entries to the same sendmail process (Note maillog below). I also noted that the first from= doesn't ... 11 Jan 2008 14:14