Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:16:22 +0100 From: Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> To: "David Lawson" <dlawson@gsc.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: operation timed out Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20020617161622.01179048@aph2k> In-Reply-To: <006b01c2160f$5df960a0$6401a8c0@gsc.net> References: <3.0.1.32.20020617140906.01179048@aph2k>
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Thanks for the reply. .. the machine is question is on the internal, nat side of a dsl router, along with an existing FBSD4.3, sendmail 8.9.3, server, which works fine... I can connect out myself via telnet and send mail with no problem. There's an internal DNS server that knows about all the machines, so is no internal DNS issues. Externally presented IP resolves, and is the same for both servers. Sending outgoing messages time out instantly .. the connect messages appear in sequence together: eg, with a message to myself queued up: rmsfour# sendmail -bH rmsfour# sendmail -v -q Running /var/spool/mqueue/g5HApDv00230 (sequence 1 of 2) robert@aphnet.co.uk... Connecting to mailgate.aphnet.co.uk. via esmtp... robert@aphnet.co.uk... Connecting to relay-2.mail.demon.net. via esmtp... robert@aphnet.co.uk... Connecting to relay-1.mail.demon.net. via esmtp... robert@aphnet.co.uk... Deferred: Operation timed out with relay-1.mail.demon.net . Running /var/spool/mqueue/g5HAak708898 (sequence 2 of 2) robert@aphnet.co.uk... Deferred: Operation timed out with relay-1.mail.demon.net . rmsfour# I'm at a loss ... I thought it'd be quicker to just install a new machine, and check it worked, rather than upgrade the existing one. Oh well .. at least I'm not fighting this one against 50 users saying "can we use it yet" :-) Rob, At 10:57 17/06/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I've had this same problem but on a machine without a legitimate domain >name. Some upstream mail servers are ok that they cannot lookup your name >and some just refuse to talk to you even if the 'To:' address is legitimate. >If this is your problem, I'm not sure what can be done other than get your >ISP to map a name to the address. > > Dave > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rob O'Donnell" <robert@aphnet.co.uk> >To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:09 AM >Subject: sendmail: operation timed out > > >> >> Hi there, >> >> I'm trying to set up a mail server, system is FreeBSD 4.5-release, >sendmail >> 8.11.6. (pretty much default install - still on generic kernal) >> >> I'd been setting up some mail filtering, but taken that out again - it >just >> hooks in by running sendmail daemon using a custom .cf file. >> >> internal mail between users is working fine; incoming external mail works >> fine, but outgoing mail just sits in the queue - mailq reports, eg: >> >> g5HB2HY00264 6 Mon Jun 17 12:02 aph >> (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx14.hotmail.com.) >> xxxxxxx@hotmail.com >> >> I can run mail to send a message and immediately mailq and get the above >> result, with not even a pause for it to actually look at something and >> timeout! >> >> /etc/resolv.cnof looks ok, indeed DNS lookups seem ok (after all, it's >> found the mx host!) and I can manually telnet to port 25 on the target >> mailserver from the fbsd box, so it's not a firewall issue. (got a >hardware >> one external to this machine, nothing set up in software.) >> >> timeout settings in sendmail.cf all at default.. >> >> Can anyone give me any clues where I should look at fixing this?! >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> >> Rob. >> >> >> -- >> APH Computers Ltd. >> Tel: 0161-442 2603 >> Fax: 0161-443 1162 >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > -- APH Computers Ltd. Tel: 0161-442 2603 Fax: 0161-443 1162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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