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Receiving email on the server.

Jul 27, 2002, 11:25 AM

Post #1 of 8 (1355 views)

Hello,

I'm having trouble receiving email on a server in which I have installed
exim 0.33 (I had also installed exim 4.05, but there were problems
setting it up with the stable version of mailman).

How should I test the system to find out what isn't set up correctly?

I've received the following in attempting to connect to the box:

Connecting to host "mail.www.learningpartnership.org"...
Connected.
S 220 www.learningpartnership.org ESMTP Exim 3.33 #2 Sat, 27 Jul 2002
13:05:27 -0500
C HELO flora.org
S 250 www.learningpartnership.org Hello flora.org [216.187.106.242]
C MAIL FROM: <mike@flora.org>
S 250 <mike@flora.org> is syntactically correct
C RCPT TO: <mike@www.learningpartnership.org>
S 550 relaying to <mike@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by
administrator
This host states that the address is not valid.
Disconnected.

It looks to me like it knows that exim is installed, but that it does
not have the rights to transfer mail to the mailbox mike.... Is this
right?

I'm at a loss as to why this isn't working... How does exim deliver
mail to a mailbox on the server and what could get in its way?

This is an error that I get when I try to send to the server:

2002-07-25 12:50:36 H=(tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) [209.226.175.34]
sender verify defer for <mike@openconcept.ca>: host lookup did not
complete
2002-07-25 12:50:36 H=(tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) [209.226.175.34]
F=<mike@openconcept.ca> temporarily rejected RCPT
<mike@[216.205.94.130]>: Sender verify did not complete

I believer that the host lookup should be turned off by this:
# host_lookup = *

No idea why host lookup isn't working (suggestions on that might be
helpful)..

This is a the headers of an email that got bounced:

Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON@calcutta1.flora.ca>
Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net
[209.226.175.26]) by calcutta1.flora.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id
g6RIFTN00633 for <mike@flora.org>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:15:29 -0400
To: mike@flora.org
From: Mail Administrator <Postmaster@bellnexxia.net>
Reply-To: Mail Administrator <Postmaster@bellnexxia.net>
Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail
Date: 27 Jul 2002 14:14:49 -0400
Message-ID:
<20020727181449.THXQ1568.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@tomts6-srv>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
Boundary="===========================_ _= 9924621(1568)1027793689"
Status:
X-Evolution-Source: pop://mike-pop@mailbox.flora.org/inbox

This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.

Recipient: <root@learningpartnership.org>
Reason: Invalid recipient: <root@learningpartnership.org>

Reporting-MTA: dns; tomts6.bellnexxia.net
Arrival-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:14:49 -0400
Received-From-MTA: dns; office.openconcept.ca (64.230.112.104)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; <root@learningpartnership.org>
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; mail.learningpartnership.org (209.235.0.132)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Invalid recipient:
<root@learningpartnership.org>

Any suggestions on how to fix this up would be very much appreciated.

Mike
--
Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca
Open Source Web Applications for Social Change.
Featured Client - NDP Leadership Candidate - http://www.billblaikie.org
"An unjust law is no law at all." - Saint Augustine

Re: Receiving email on the server. [ In reply to ]

tom at sdf

Jul 27, 2002, 10:37 AM

Post #2 of 8 (1343 views)

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On 27 Jul 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:

> S 550 relaying to <mike@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by
> administrator

You need to tell Exim that "www.learningpartnership.org" is a local
domain.

Tom

Receiving email on the server. [ In reply to ]

mike at openconcept

Jul 27, 2002, 11:34 AM

Post #3 of 8 (1345 views)

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Sorry,

The last piece was a bit of a red herring.. Just noticed that it was sent to root@learningpartnership.org (which should be going to another server).

> This is a the headers of an email that got bounced:
>
? Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON@calcutta1.flora.ca>
> Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net
> [209.226.175.26]) by calcutta1.flora.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id
> g6RIFTN00633 for <mike@flora.org>; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:15:29 -0400
> To: mike@flora.org
> From: Mail Administrator <Postmaster@bellnexxia.net>

The trouble is getting mail to the web server (so we can run mailman).. The error messages I get back from mike@www.learningpartnership.org look like this:

From: Mail Administrator <Postmaster@bellnexxia.net>
Reply-To: Mail Administrator <Postmaster@bellnexxia.net>
To: mike@openconcept.ca
Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail
Date: 27 Jul 2002 14:29:21 -0400
This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.

Recipient: <mike@www.learningpartnership.org>
Reason: relaying to <mike@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by administrator

Recipient: <root@www.learningpartnership.org>
Reason: relaying to <root@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by administrator

Reporting-MTA: dns; tomts7.bellnexxia.net
Arrival-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:29:21 -0400
Received-From-MTA: dns; office.openconcept.ca (64.230.112.104)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; <mike@www.learningpartnership.org>
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; mail.www.learningpartnership.org (216.205.84.246)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 relaying to <mike@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by administrator

Final-Recipient: RFC822; <root@www.learningpartnership.org>
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; mail.www.learningpartnership.org (216.205.84.246)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 relaying to <root@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by administrator

From: Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca>
To: mike@www.learningpartnership.org
Cc: root@www.learningpartnership.org
Subject: testte
Date: 27 Jul 2002 14:29:48 -0400
test

Mike
--
Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca
Open Source Web Applications for Social Change.
Featured Client - NDP Leadership Candidate - http://www.billblaikie.org
"An unjust law is no law at all." - Saint Augustine

Re: Receiving email on the server. [ In reply to ]

mike at openconcept

Jul 27, 2002, 12:09 PM

Post #4 of 8 (1355 views)

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Thanks for your quick respons Tom,

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 13:37, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > S 550 relaying to <mike@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by
> > administrator
> You need to tell Exim that "www.learningpartnership.org" is a local
> domain.

Ok.. I think I've added this to the configure file:

local_domains =
www.learningpartnership.org:mail.www.learningpartnership.org

However I don't see exim in /etc/init.d/ so I'm not sure how to restart
it to take the new config file.

I've tested the config file with:

[root@learningpartnership exim]# bin/exim -C configure -bV
Exim version 3.33 #2 built 17-Jul-2002 13:47:31
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2001

This is set up correctly:

[root@learningpartnership exim]# ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 17 03:03
/usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/local/exim/bin/exim

However going through the testing I seem to have some problem with the
following basic tests:

[root@learningpartnership exim]# bin/exim -v -bV mike
Exim version 3.33 #2 built 17-Jul-2002 13:47:31
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2001

exim: SIGINT received - message abandoned
LOG: 0 MAIN
SIGINT received while reading local message
[root@learningpartnership exim]# bin/exim -v -bV mike@flora.org
Exim version 3.33 #2 built 17-Jul-2002 13:47:31
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2001

exim: SIGINT received - message abandoned
LOG: 0 MAIN
SIGINT received while reading local message

I just got this sent back (tried to send it directly to the IP address 2
days ago)..

From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@learningpartnership.org>
To: mike@openconcept.ca
Subject: Warning: message 17Xmuk-0003Sg-00 delayed 48 hours
Date: 27 Jul 2002 13:52:32 -0500
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its
recipients after more than 48 hours on the queue on
www.learningpartnership.org.

The message identifier is: 17Xmuk-0003Sg-00
The subject of the message is: test66
The date of the message is: 25 Jul 2002 13:58:17 -0400

The addresses to which the message has not yet been delivered are:

mike@[216.205.94.130]
keb@[216.205.94.130]

No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for
some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message
remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up,
and when that happens, the message will be returned to you.

This is uncommented in the config file:
local_domains_include_host_literals

I expect that I need to restart exim to get it to pull in the new config
values.. Just not sure why I can't do that..

Mike
--
Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca
Open Source Web Applications for Social Change.
Featured Client - NDP Leadership Candidate - http://www.billblaikie.org
"An unjust law is no law at all." - Saint Augustine

RE: Receiving email on the server. [ In reply to ]

mike at openconcept

Jul 27, 2002, 1:16 PM

Post #5 of 8 (1350 views)

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Hello Derrick,

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 15:56, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> What type of OS are you on?

Redhat 7.1 (with some upgrades)

> In some you can do:
> "ps -ef|grep sendmail" and others it's "ps -aux|grep sendmail" - you
> should see that sendmail is running, (and it should be a symbolic link
> to the exim binary)

It seems to be there:

[root@learningpartnership exim]# ps -ef|grep sendmail
root 21869 1 0 14:34 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
-q1h
root 22778 21454 0 15:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep sendmail

I had tried this previously (but that didn't work):

[root@learningpartnership exim]# ps -aux|grep sendmail
root 22780 0.0 0.4 1700 592 pts/0 S 15:03 0:00 grep
sendmail

> On my FreeBSD box:
> mail# ls -lrt /usr/sbin/sendmail
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Jan 22 2002 /usr/sbin/sendmail ->
> /usr/exim/bin/exim

[root@learningpartnership exim]# ls -lrt /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 17 03:03
/usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/local/exim/bin/exim

Seems right to me..

> You can try this to restart it:
> killall -HUP sendmail

That killed it as it didn't appear when I did this
ps -ef|grep sendmail

> That should do it, if you tail the end of the log file, you should see
> it says it restarted, if that doesn't work you can kill the pid:

The log files do not seem to be up to date.. /var/log/exim/mainlog (and
others) are at least two days old)..

Hmm.. It looks liek that was commented out the last time the
Local/Makefile was updated...

> ps -aux | grep sendmail
> Returns:
> exim 76799 0.0 0.0 1472 376 ?? Ss 16Jul02 0:23.40
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd

[mike@learningpartnership mike]$ ps -aux | grep sendmail
mike 23378 0.0 0.4 1700 592 pts/1 S 15:16 0:00 grep
sendmail

But I can send mail...

> So I go "kill 76799" and then need to restart by hand,
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -db -q15m

[mike@learningpartnership mike]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -db -q15m
exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -db

> Let me know if you need anymore help, I'm off to get ready and then to a
> music festival.

I think I'm still needing more help (but am off for a bike ride with my
family at the moment (or i'm in big troulbe)

> Nice to see your involved in politics here in Canada, I really don't
> have too many good things to say about the current feelings on most of
> the politicians of the day, they are too concerned with their 10 second
> clip gettting on the news when they make their comments in the house,
> and I don't think more than a very small handfull seem to give anyone I
> know a feeling that they aren't corrupt and in politics for personal
> gain. Bring in mandatory political service, much like Rome was at one
> time, maybe that will help. :)

That could be fun Derrick! Although I'd hate to see what the Minister
for Defense would do if he really didn't like the job and was having a
very bad day!

Mike
--
Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca
Open Source Web Applications for Social Change.
Featured Client - NDP Leadership Candidate - http://www.billblaikie.org
"An unjust law is no law at all." - Saint Augustine

Re: Receiving email on the server. [ In reply to ]

mike at openconcept

Jul 27, 2002, 7:27 PM

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Thanks.. We've got this part working now..

Now we just have to struggle with mailman accepting them..

Mike

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 13:37, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> On 27 Jul 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:
>
> > S 550 relaying to <mike@www.learningpartnership.org> prohibited by
> > administrator
>
> You need to tell Exim that "www.learningpartnership.org" is a local
> domain.
>
> Tom
--
Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca
Open Source Web Applications for Social Change.
Featured Client - NDP Leadership Candidate - http://www.billblaikie.org
"An unjust law is no law at all." - Saint Augustine

RE: Receiving email on the server. [ In reply to ]

juha at saarinen

Jul 27, 2002, 7:42 PM

Post #7 of 8 (1341 views)

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On 27 Jul 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:

> Hello Derrick,
>
> On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 15:56, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> > What type of OS are you on?
>
> Redhat 7.1 (with some upgrades)

In that case, do (as root, or with sudo):

service exim restart

Did you remember to uninstall Sendmail? Check with:

rpm -qa | grep sendmail

If the command shows any Sendmail related packages, uninstal them with
'rpm -e'.

--
Juha Saarinen

RE: Receiving email on the server. [ In reply to ]

mike at openconcept

Jul 27, 2002, 7:48 PM

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Hello Juha,

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 22:42, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 15:56, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> > > What type of OS are you on?
> > Redhat 7.1 (with some upgrades)
> In that case, do (as root, or with sudo):
> service exim restart

Will try that.. Looks easier.

> Did you remember to uninstall Sendmail? Check with:
> rpm -qa | grep sendmail

Had unistnalled sendmail at one point this evening (but I think after I
had sent this message)

> If the command shows any Sendmail related packages, uninstal them with
> 'rpm -e'.

Just a sendmail-cf left (config) that I'll remove shortly..

I was really hoping that there would be some way to easily install exim
& mailman on a redhat 7.x server.. Would think it was a fairly common
request..

Mike
--
Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca
Open Source Web Applications for Social Change.
Featured Client - NDP Leadership Candidate - http://www.billblaikie.org
"An unjust law is no law at all." - Saint Augustine