From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 00:06:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BF516A417 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:06:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86A013C45A for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:06:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9I063IO053200; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:06:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20071017185837.02498f88@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:05:47 -0500 To: dwinner@dwinner.net From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <4716977A.3080106@dwinner.net> References: <4716799B.5010502@dwinner.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20071017164928.0246f280@mail.computinginnovations.com> <4716977A.3080106@dwinner.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:06:24 -0000 At 06:15 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: >Derek Ragona wrote: > > At 04:07 PM 10/17/2007, Duane Winner wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I need help to resolve a problem with my sendmail server. > >> > >> In my /var/log/maillog, I've been seeing: > >> > >> sm-mta[1753]: l9H4EoAn001753: outbound-mail-10.bluehost.com > >> [69.89.17.210] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to > >> IPv4 > >> > >> I use this server to manage mailman lists, so I knew something was wrong > >> when I started notice that my own list posts (using a bluehost.com > >> account) were not showing up. > >> So I looked in the logs and noticed the above. > >> > >> At first I thought it might be bluehost.com acting up again, but then > >> tried to send mail from a gmail.com account. Same thing: > >> > >> sm-mta[1785]: l9H4OdFq001785: py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176] > >> did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to IPv4 > >> > >> > >> It accepts fine from my company's external email server (different > >> domain, different network), and also accepts from my att.net email > >> account, and many others who post to my lists. > >> > >> I'm not sure where to even begin looking. Any help appreciated! > >> > >> -DW > > > > Are you running only IPv4? or are you running IPv6? Or both? > >IPv4 only. When I restart sendmail, I get the following output, which if >I'm interpreting correctly, means that sendmail isn't going to try to >use IPv6 when it's running: > >Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-mta[33703]: starting daemon (8.13.6): >SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 >Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-mta[33703]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol >not supported >Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-mta[33703]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): >opendaemonsocket: daemon IPv6: optional socket disabled >Oct 17 19:13:23 mymailserver sm-msp-queue[33707]: starting daemon >(8.13.6): queueing@00:30:00 It looks like you are trying to run sendmail on IPv6. You can turn on or off support for IPv6 in the DaemonPortOptions in your *.cf files in /etc/mail. I would check those and also check your IP stack configuration doing: ifconfig -a -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.