Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:03:46 -0500 From: Ken Hawkins <ken@rosewoodblues.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: complete rookie sendmail question Message-ID: <d8ef6e9fb652f9d40e8cd228209f5c04@rosewoodblues.com> In-Reply-To: <20050227202639.GB9833@gothmog.gr> References: <aaf69334b1a26fc0f4bab9e496d89132@rosewoodblues.com> <20050225161127.GB55686@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <d415eb3eecbceacf607a4e07b553fcfc@rosewoodblues.com> <20050227202639.GB9833@gothmog.gr>
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On Feb 27, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-02-27 11:44, Ken Hawkins <ken@rosewoodblues.com> wrote:
>> Found out it was a firewall issue and that is open now. though my
>> problem has gone from connection refused to:
>> Feb 27 08:22:04 web1 sendmail[85505]: j1MIj4DI065443: <...>
>> delay=4+19:37:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=22920813,
>> relay=bhost1.broadjam.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed
>> out with bhost1.broadjam.net.
>>
>> is there a timeout that I can set in sendmail to set a longer wait
>> time on this?
>
> Something else is wrong now. I can't connect to the SMTP port of
> bhost1.broadjam.net, so I can't tell if it's down or just refusing my
> attempt to connect.
I think it is just refusing your connection attempts.
>
> Are you sure you should be sending outgoing email through that host?
yes.
>
>> my flags in my rc.conf are:
>>
>> sendmail_enable="YES"
>> sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory.
>
> This looks a bit wrong, if you are running a recent release of FreeBSD.
> The sendmail_enable option is *NOT* going to work with _flags. It is
> mostly a wrapper around the following:
>
> sendmail_submit_enable
> sendmail_outbound_enable
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable
>
> You should definitely read the manpage of rc.sendmail, before setting
> Sendmail-related options in your /etc/rc.conf file. Pay very close
> attention to the section ``RC.CONF VARIABLES''.
from my man rc.conf:
RC.CONF VARIABLES
The following variables affect the behavior of rc.sendmail. They
are
defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and can be changed in
/etc/rc.conf.
sendmail_enable
(str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at
system
boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8)
daemon to
listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a
sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the
loopback
interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should
not be
used. It will be removed in a future release.
sendmail_flags
(str) If sendmail_enable is set to ``YES'', these are the
flags
to pass to the sendmail(8) daemon.
and my settings are:
sendmail_enable="YES"
sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory.
the only thing that I see wrong here is that I do not need the -bd
which tells sendmail to run as a daemon since sendmail_enable="YES"
essentially does this. the other is to process the queue every 30
minutes. am I missing my problem here?
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