Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:27:43 -0400 From: Duane Winner <dwinner@dwinner.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail problems Message-ID: <4717A59F.2080502@dwinner.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20071017185837.02498f88@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <4716799B.5010502@dwinner.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20071017164928.0246f280@mail.computinginnovations.com> <4716977A.3080106@dwinner.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20071017185837.02498f88@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Derek Ragona wrote: > 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 Still broken; I disabled IPv6 in my cf's, and sendmail doesn't even try to listen on IPv6 now when I restart it. I don't think it did anyway before, it was just trying to but I don't have IPv6 in my stack since I disable it in the kernel config, so it just ignored ipv6 after startup. I think something else is going on. The weird thing is that it's just certain mail hosts that it's rejecting. > > -Derek > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers <http://www.transtec.co.uk/>; for > their support.
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