On Friday 05 January 2007 6:32 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2007-01-05 at 00:28 -0500, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I'm trying to send mail through my ISP using sendmail (postfix under the
covers). I have to use sendmail because the actual application is the
PHP5 "mail" command, and that command uses sendmail. My ISP requires a
username and password to accept the relay; this protocol goes under the
name of SMTP AUTH.
How can I track down the reason the mail isn't arriving?
Aha! The log contains this:
Jan 5 10:46:59 suillus postfix/smtp[7947]: 15FEE9CE00: to=,
relay=smtp.comcast.net[206.18.177.17]:25, delay=7.1,
delays=6.5/0.02/0.42/0.16, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host
smtp.comcast.net[206.18.177.17] said: 550 [PERMFAIL] acm.org requires valid
sender domain (in reply to RCPT TO command))
I took the suggestions of several other people and still get this result:
Joachim Schrod suggested changing the sendmail call to something like this:
sendmail -t -v
From:
To:
Subject: test
He also noted that mail uses sendmail -- and in fact, mail works perfectly for
the relay on my box.
Patrick Shanahan suggested adding this to main.cf:
relayhost = smtp.comcast.net
followed by
postfix reload
John Andersen suggested that I didn't need to fiddle with main.cf at all, but
could just do the configuration through Yast (Mail Transfer Agent).
I took all of those suggestions, but still get the message above in the mail
log.
So the real problem seems to lie with the sender domain.
All this reminds me of an experience I had about a month ago when I had some
very strange behavior from Grub and asked for help on this list. Ultimately
I discovered that I had a hardware problem with the docking unit I was using
for my hard drive, so some disk operations were failing -- just a few. So
the weird things I was seeing weren't due to software or Grub
misconfiguration at all. This time it's almost certainly not hardware.
Paul
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org