[Powermail-users] URGENT need help

[bert hubert]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Dominique Feyer wrote:
> If I put the local domain on the file /etc/mail/local-host-names
>  sendmail does not return the MX loopback error. In this case it store
> the mail in /var/spool/mail (in mbox format).

Try binding sendmail to 127.0.0.1 only.


> 
> When I remove the domain in local-host-names, sendmail return the MX
> loopback error. Sendmail is in standart configuration from the RPM of
> the redhat 7.3.
> 
> pplistener, powersmtp and powerpop return status OK all the port are
> open and the client can send (SMTP) and read email (POP) without any
> problem.
> 
> 
> With my knowledge, I think that sendmail check the dns (if the domain is
> not in local-host-names) and send the mail to the port 25 on the MX
> record via SMTP.
> 
> nmap on localhost return this :
> 
> Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1):
> (The 1544 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> Port       State       Service
> 21/tcp     open        ftp
> 25/tcp     open        smtp
> 49/tcp     open        tacacs
> 53/tcp     open        domain
> 80/tcp     open        http
> 110/tcp    open        pop-3
> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc
> 953/tcp    open        rndc
> 3306/tcp   open        mysql
> 10000/tcp  open        snet-sensor-mgmt
> 
> The port 25 is open (powersmtp)
> 
> Sendmail service are not running because we use only to binary to send
> mail.
> 
> If you need more information, I can send you some configuration files.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> I'm don't like sendmail because it's very hard the configure it. The
> documentation are very hard to read as well. Powermail is very simple to
> configure. I like this. And it's very stable and easy to learn.
> 
> 
> Le lun 15/09/2003 ? 11:12, bert hubert a ?crit :
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:17:57AM +0200, Dominique Feyer wrote:
> > 
> > > But on this server there'is Apache with CGI support. When a CGI
> script
> > > send a mail, the binary of sendmail receive the mail and store them
> in
> > > his mbox dir but not in powermail.
> > 
> > You need to be clearer than this, sorry. I want to help, but this I
> don't
> > understand the problem. 
> > 
> > > How can I configure sendmail to use the port 25 of powermail to
> store
> > > their e-mail ?
> > 
> > Perhaps an smtproute.
> 
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