Re: Mail problem - smail
> > Use the option "satellite system".
>
> No - DON'T. Satellite is useful if and only if all the usernames of
> any account that will ever receive any mail are either mentioned in
> /etc/aliases or match the usernames on your smarthost. Among other
> things, the satellite setup makes using fetchmail near impossible. I
Hmm, strange. My fetchmail doesn't know of this limitation. It happily
gets the mails and handels them to smail and smail delivers them.
I'll append my config to this mail.
> IMAP or POP-capable MUAs exclusively, and don't ever want local mail to go
> on. However, it has the potential to set you up to send mail to system
I have no problem to send mail between the accounts on my system.
> accounts at your ISP about what's happeneing on your box, which with some
> ISPs could annoy them greatly. Use the internet host option.
Yes, this is annoying, but it doen't happen on my box.
> > > from my machine, smail says in the logfiles that the hostname peter is not
> > > valid. The From: line of the mail ontains "pn@peter", and therefore smail
> > > doesn't sem to send the mail.
> > >
> > I have also observed this behaviour if you say "internet site" in
> > smailconfig.
> >
>
> Well, I just re-configured my machine's smail a few times checking this
> out, and I don't see this behavior - I'm betting that it's your smarthost
> which is rejecting the mails, and smail is reporting the reason for
> rejection in the logs. Check to see if right before the rejection message
> there's a line that says something like "destination supports esmtp
> 8BITMIME SIZE" - if so, then smail is making the connection to your
> smarthost before the rejection message, which would seem to point the
> finger at your smarthost.
>
I have set up a debian server at my university a month ago (using the
"internet site" option.
The university's dnsmaster didn't set up a MX record for my host although
he said it was set up.
The fqdn is bundy.internet-treff.uni-koeln.de, and I set the visible name
to internet-treff.uni-koeln.de.
As long as the MX wasn't set up, I got a reply from the mailsystem (DNS
lookup failed for internet-treff.uni-koeln.de) if I tried to send mail
from the system. The same for mails to the system using the MX address
(user@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de).
So:
here is my setup.
Local mail gets delivered without problems (check with mailx root). If
offline, mail will be queued by smail (I have a "runq" in my ip-up to send
it as soon as I connect; smail tries every 20 min. nethertheless). If
online, it will sent the mail immediatelly.
hostname --fqdn
haitech.internet-treff.de
cat /etc/smail/config
[...]
visible_name=uni-koeln.de
-domains
hostnames=haitech:localhost:haitech.internet-treff.de:internet-treff.de
[...]
cat .fetchmailrc
poll 194.8.194.71 protocol pop3
username myname password mypasswd is martinb here
smtphost localhost
----
yes, my name at my isp is not martinb.
Ciao,
Martin
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