Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent

Thu Nov 6 13:40:58 PST 2003

Just out of curiosity have you used nslookup to check if MX records are 
resolving ok?

Have you checked the logs?   Does your host have forward and reverse 
dns working correctly and they match?  Mail servers often reject mail 
coming from machines without proper dns entries.  DNS not working right 
means much more than just can i resolve a site on the box.

On Nov 6, 2003, at 3:41 PM, chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:

> I've got to get this working. The suggestion that DNS is not working 
> right
> can't be correct, I can browse the web and do traceroutes to named 
> sites
> without a problem. The emails sent from the command line mail never 
> arrive
> at the destination. I don't know what to check/fix to make it work. At 
> the
> bottom is all the screen messages of a mail and traceroute.
> TIA,
> --
> Chip
>
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote on 11/04/2003 10:29:18 AM:
>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if DNS is not working, I would not be 
>> able
> to
>> do a traceroute to a domain name, right? But rather only to an ip
> address?
>> But I can do traceroute to a domain name, and browse the web, by name.
> Is
>> this right or not?
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Chip W
>>
>> Steve Hovey <shovey at buffnet.net> wrote on 11/04/2003 09:04:26 AM:
>>
>>> Looks to me like you dont have DNS workin right - everything resolves
> to
>>> your local host instead of gettin the correct MX records.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just set up a new box with fbsd-5.1 and it appears that the email
>> never
>>>> leaves the box, or at least it never arrives at its intended
>> destination.
>>>> I have set up previous versions of freebsd and never had a problem
>> sending
>>>> mail with out any configuration of sendmail. The machine does
> connect
>> and
>>>> browse the internet. My rc.conf has sendmail_enable=NO. So it should
>
>> be
>>>> able to send, but not receive, which is what I want.I have included
>> the
>>>> mail -v messages below. I have tried to send to 4 different
> addresses,
>>
>>>> including the freebsd-test list, no messages show up at any
> addresses.
>>>> Any idea why mail is not being sent?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Chip W
>>>> Simrad, Inc
>>>> --------------------------------------
> -bash-2.05b$ mail -v -s test carvin5string at yahoo.com
> test
> .
> EOT
> carvin5string at yahoo.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
> 220 simradusa.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.9; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 
> 12:20:53
> -0800 (PST)
>>>> EHLO simradusa.com
> 250-simradusa.com Hello localhost.simrad.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to 
> meet
> you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
>>>> MAIL From:<autopilots at simradusa.com> SIZE=48
> 250 2.1.0 <autopilots at simradusa.com>... Sender ok
>>>> RCPT To:<carvin5string at yahoo.com>
>>>> DATA
> 250 2.1.5 <carvin5string at yahoo.com>... Recipient ok
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>>> .
> 250 2.0.0 hA6KKrBZ004086 Message accepted for delivery
> carvin5string at yahoo.com... Sent (hA6KKrBZ004086 Message accepted for
> delivery)
> Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>>> QUIT
> 221 2.0.0 simradusa.com closing connection
> -bash-2.05b$ traceroute www.yahoo.com
> traceroute: Warning: www.yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using
> 216.109.118.77
> traceroute to www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.109.118.77), 64 hops max, 40 
> byte
> packets
>  1  157.237.65.200 (157.237.65.200)  0.585 ms  0.442 ms  0.396 ms
>  2  * * *
>  3  Loopback0.GW7.SEA1.ALTER.NET (137.39.2.41)  6.646 ms  4.957 ms  
> 7.705
> ms
>  4  146.ATM3-0.XR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.170)  5.021 ms  5.372 ms
> 5.032 ms
>  5  0.so-0-0-0.XL1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.106.225)  5.117 ms  5.354 ms
> 5.442 ms
>  6  POS6-0.BR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.105.17)  9.381 ms  5.093 ms  
> 6.418
> ms
>  7  pos6-3.hsa2.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.0.227.153)  5.413 ms  5.258 ms
> 6.232 ms
>  8  ge-6-1-1.mp2.Seattle1.level3.net (209.247.9.85)  5.777 ms  5.528 ms
> 6.340 ms
>  9  so-2-0-0.bbr2.Washington1.level3.net (209.247.10.130)  70.657 ms
> 70.971 ms  74.569 ms
> 10  gige9-2.ipcolo1.Washington1.Level3.net (64.159.18.163)  70.584 ms
> 70.999 ms  70.339 ms
> 11  unknown.Level3.net (63.210.59.254)  71.428 ms  71.252 ms  71.040 ms
> 12  vl30.bas1-m.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.120.142)  71.191 ms  72.190 ms
> 71.138 ms
> 13  p14.www.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.118.77)  71.915 ms  71.698 ms  
> 71.491
> ms
> -bash-2.05b$
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