[Sussex] sendmail prob

[Gareth Ablett]

Steve

> On 10 June 2003 at 09:53 Gareth Ablett wrote:
> > Anyway to my problem I have installed QPopper and have that working
> > I can send mail using SMTP from the server but any mail I send to
> > an address on the server it doesn't even get into the server its
> > bounced off.
> 
> I'm not quite sure exactly what's happening here.  Are you saying that
> e-mail that is to be delivered to the box is getting bounced.  What do
> the logs say on the box and on the sender.

Sorry for being a little less then understanding but you understood
anyway.
I have look at the mail logs and they don't even have anything in that 
connects to the mail coming in.

one thing I did get was a permission denied email from Mailer Daemon.
 
> Have you tried using "telnet <box> 25" to talk SMTP to sendmail and
see
> what it's reporting.

When I telneted to it I just connected in no problems.

> You may even try falling back to running sendmail with "-bt" which
runs
> sendmail in address test mode. This mode reads addresses and shows the
> steps in parsing; it is used for debugging configuration tables.

Already tried this aswell.

> Then there is the real solution: install exim!!!!!

I would but its not my server. Hay if I had the choice I would of
installed 
Debian instead.


Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

ITP Services Ltd.
http://www.itpserve.co.uk/

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