From owner-freebsd-net Tue Sep 15 06:46:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09399 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 06:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arthur.axion.bt.co.uk (arthur.axion.bt.co.uk [132.146.5.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA09394 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 06:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk) Received: from rambo (actually rambo.futures.bt.co.uk) by arthur (PP) with SMTP; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:44:27 +0100 Received: from maczebedee (actually macsmtp) by rambo with SMTP (PP); Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:43:27 +0100 Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 1998 14:45:21 +0100 From: Graeme Brown Subject: Sending email from FreeBSD To: "FreeBSD-Net (FreeBSD.Org) List" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP for Quarterdeck Mail; Version 4.0.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear List According to FreeBSD handbook Sec 17.2.1, I should be able to send email to external hosts as long as my /etc/resolv.conf is setup OK with FreeBSD at it comes "out-of-the-box". But I cannot ! My FreeBSD 2.2.5 host is freeb1.bt-sys.bt.co.uk with a valid public IP Address. In /etc/services I have % cat /etc/services | grep smtp smtp 25/tcp mail #Simple Mail Transfer smtp 25/udp mail #Simple Mail Transfer % The sendmail demon appears to be running ... % ps -ax | grep sendmail 146 ?? Is 0:00.96 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail) 4184 p3 S+ 0:00.02 grep sendmail % Flags for sendmail in my /etc/rc.conf ... sendmail_enable="YES" # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO). sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory. If as Section 17.2.1 says I do a hostname I get % hostname freeb1.bt-sys.bt.co.uk % Also host freeb1.bt-sys.bt.co.uk gives % host freeb1.bt-sys.bt.co.uk freeb1.bt-sys.bt.co.uk mail is handled (pri=15) by zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk freeb1.bt-sys.bt.co.uk mail is handled (pri=20) by relay.bt.net freeb1.bt-sys.bt.co.uk mail is handled (pri=10) by mailhub.axion.bt.co.uk % I have tried to send a test email to myself (graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk) which should be forwarded to my mail account on another system but it never reaches the destination ! Can anyone elighten me as to what is wrong or what I need to check out ? TIA ------------------------------------- Graeme Brown | Internet Futures | BT Laboratories, UK | email: graeme.brown@bt-sys.bt.co.uk | ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message