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[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:48:06PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Gary Kline <kline at magnesium.net>:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> > > In response to Gary Kline <kline at magnesium.net>:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 	I stumpped.   I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my 
> > > > 	private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why??
> > > 
> > > Have you checked /var/log/maillog?
> 
> This is what I was looking for.  See inline comments:
> 
> > MORE::
> > 
> > 
	[ ...  ]

> > Jan  3 14:27:54 sage sendmail[17370]: m03MRshQ017367: --- 050 <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>... Connecting to mx1.freebsd.org. via esmtp...
> > Jan  3 14:27:54 sage sendmail[17370]: m03MRshQ017367: makeconnection (mx1.freebsd.org. [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) failed: No route to host
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Here it's trying to connect the the IPv6 address for mx1.freebsd.org but
> is unable to.  I'm going to go out with a limb and guess that you're not
> using IPv6 yet.  Apparently you can add the following to your cf file:
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Name=MTA')
> CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Name=MTA')
> 
> But I'm not a sendmail expert, so I can't verify that this information
> is correct.
> 
	I'm FAR from savvy sendmail wise, but know enouhto assk if I have to run the
	above options thru the preprocesssor.   Do you know??


	Also, why-oh-why, can I only get out thru "sage|ns1"?  I can reach from
	sage to here at toxic.magnesium.net.  But from nowhere else>>>
	.....


	anybody?  no wonder people have ben writing to see if i died or whatever..
	my lifeline is dead.

> > Jan  3 14:27:54 sage sendmail[17370]: m03MRshQ017367: SMTP outgoing connect on ns1
> > Jan  3 14:27:55 sage sendmail[17370]: m03MRshQ017367: --- 050 <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>... Deferred: 450 4.7.1 <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>: Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable
> 
> Why is this machine falling back to send mail via ns1?  If that's
> intended, then ns1 needs to be configured to accept mail from this
> system and act as a relay.
> 
> > Jan  3 14:27:55 sage sendmail[17370]: m03MRshQ017367: to=<freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>, ctladdr=<kline at sage.thought.org> (1001/1001), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30843, relay=mx1.freebsd.org. [69.147.83.52], dsn=4.7.1, stat=Deferred: 450 4.7.1 <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>: Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable
> > Jan  3 14:27:55 sage sendmail[17370]: NOQUEUE: --- 050 Closing connection to mx1.freebsd.org.
> > 
> > 	I don't understand why freebsd.org seems "unreachable"a Do I have to configure IPv6?
> 
> No, but apparently you need to tell sendmail that you haven't configured
> IPv6.  Unless you're _trying_ to use IPv6, in which case there would
> appear to be something wrong with you IPv6 config.


	Hm....  ok,  well, i've used to dooted-demical, but going for 64 or 128
	bits is  ..... well, no wonder i feel like a fossil!

	thanks muchly,

	gary

> 
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