[NBLUG/talk] senamail configuration help

[Ron Wickersham]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Glen Gunsalus wrote:

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> reading message 6 of 7 (952 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP< 220 gv.gunsalusvineyard.com ESMTP Sendmail 
> 8.11.6/8.11.6; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:23:54 -0800

shows the answer from senmail and that sendmail knows your host name

> fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost

this (enhanced) helo msg from fetchmail says, "i'm localhost".

> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-gv.gunsalusvineyard.com Hello 

sendmail says helo to gv.gunsalusvineyard.com

> IDENT:Zc7sA2x1UKcgehxGYJxY4knur8oaTiPN at localhost.localdomain 
> [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you

shows connection to 127.0.0.1 with ident localhost.localdomain

> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<g-gunsalus at mindspring.com>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.0.0 Access denied

this is where sendmail is refusing to accept mail from you.

> fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
>   flushed

hi Glen,

it appears that your machine is not completely configured as gv.   (i'm
not familiar with fetchmail but the log entries are good and show enough)

the ident shows the machine a localhost.localdomain and this is probably
confusing sendmail (the localdomain part is what i expect is giving the
problem).

but i think you can make sendmail talk to your machine by adding
gv.gunsalusvineyard.com to the file local-host-names in /etc/mail
(or wherever your system has the sendmail config files).  you'll
have to restart sendmail so it will re-read the config files for the
change to take effect.  (if the file doesn't exist, then make a new
one).

-ron