[BUGS] Sendmail as forwarder

[jonathan michaels]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:48:38PM +1100, John Marshall wrote:
> Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> > On 02/01/2008, at 11:31 AM, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> > 
> >> I decided to go with this option, since my sendmail.cf already
> >> included the mailertable feature.. To test it I added 2 entries:
> >>
> >> localmachine.local.domain esmtp:[localmachine.local.domain]
> >> .						  esmtp:[mail.isp.net]
> >>
> 
> Your local machine name should be in Sendmail's class {w} (the default 
> machine - `hostname` - name will be). Mailertable is only for domains 
> which are non-local. You should remove the 'localmachine' entry.
> 
> >> and build the db file, on testing mail sent to an external domain the
> >> mail is now sitting in the queue not going anywhere, mail to local
> >> users is working fine. Mailq is showing:
> >>
> >> (Deferred: 450 4.1.8 <user at localmachine.local.domain>: Sender ad)
> 
> I'm missing something here:
> 
> - You say that local mail is working fine and yet mail to a local 
> addressee is sitting in the queue "Deferred".
> - You say that mail sent to an external domain is sitting in the queue 
> but mailq only shows an entry for mail to a local addressee?

maybe i am missing teh point too but i have a host (on freebsd
v6.2 and its sendmail) that cannot forward mail beyond its own
hard disk it currently has since feb 18 2007 when i "upgraded"
freebsd to v6.2.

it also has it name in teh local-hostnames file all teh aliases
files names are the same as the other 6 machines .. everything
in /etc/mail is nearly identical to all teh other machines with
v6.2 but this one machine cannot get mail out of its mailqueue
??

i'll admit i'm not comfortable with v6,2 but i am getting
there i have got a basic freebsd setup it works  and does its
job i still have issues with named but my dns is working and is
lookupable and is authoratative for all teh relevent machines.
localy and intranetworkingly .. as far as i can tell.
 
> Does your machine resolve external domain names? If not, you'll either 
> need a hosts entry for your ISP's mail relay, or you'll need to use its 
> IP address instead of its domain name in /etc/mailertable.

i donot use mailertable/virtualuser ...

trimmed

i've been looking at teh 



i've got hundreds of these 500, 600, 700's in /var/log/maillog

Jan  2 17:11:44 reality sm-msp-queue[71874]: lBSG7ogU053783: to=root,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=4+14:03:54, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=20291078, 
relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

Jan  2 17:11:44 reality sm-msp-queue[71874]: lBSG7rqT053841: to=root, 
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=4+14:03:51, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=20325905,
relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

and in /var/log/dmesg.yesterday et al ..

kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1001, please see tuning(7).
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1001, please see tuning(7).

and here is an example of one of teh maintenance (3 am etc)
that gets clobbered when the aliases system trys to post teh
article from reality to mx.caamora.com.au and into my mailbox
on teh mx host

here is one of teh "headers" file for the articles that get
generated by root's crontab periodical (daily maintenance) this
addresse is according to /etc/mail/aliases is readdressed to jlm
at caamora dot com dot au by the mail aliases file ...  

V8
T1198858070
K1199256105
N227
P20381078
I0/97/94268
MDeferred: Can't assign requested address
Fwbs
$_root at localhost
${daemon_flags}c u
Sroot
Aroot at reality.caamora.com.au
MDeferred: Can't assign requested address
C:root
rRFC822; root at reality.caamora.com.au
RPFD:root
H?P?Return-Path: <<81>g>
H??Received: (from root at localhost)
        by reality.caamora.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id
lBSG7ogU053783
        for root; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:07:50 +1100 (EST)
        (envelope-from root)
H?D?Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:07:50 +1100 (EST)
H?F?From: Charlie Root <root>
H?x?Full-Name: Charlie Root
H?M?Message-Id:
<200712281607.lBSG7ogU053783 at reality.caamora.com.au>
H??To: root
H??Subject: reality.caamora.com.au security run output
.

.... but instead of landing in my mailbox on teh mx host it
never leaves the machine ending up  in teh
/var/spool/clientmqueue.

but all teh other machines work properly oooops except for
another one but its  on because i'm keeping teh cmos battery
'charged' but all teh others, teh sendmail works as charged, i
cannot see what teh differences in teh config files are, teht
all apprear (to me) to be identical .. i do nto understand what
is happening.

another data point .. i think

regards

jonathan
 
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