kish@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bill Kish) (04/19/89)
Any SGI sendmail gurus want to take a crack at this ? In the following, I am sending mail from a SUN 3/50 (128.6.14.23, kish.rutgers.edu) to an IRIS 4D/80 GTX, version 3.1C (128.6.3.12, garnet.rutgers.edu). kish.rutgers.edu % mail -v kish@garnet Subject: testing from kish.rutgers.edu Hello to user kish on garnet.rutgers.edu EOT kish.rutgers.edu % kish@garnet... Connecting to garnet.rutgers.edu (tcpld)... 220 garnet.rutgers.edu Sendmail 5.52/1.15 ready at Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:08 EDT >>> HELO kish.rutgers.edu 250 garnet.rutgers.edu Hello kish.rutgers.edu, pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From:<kish@jove.rutgers.edu> 250 <kish@jove.rutgers.edu>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<kish@garnet.rutgers.edu> 250 <kish@garnet.rutgers.edu>... Recipient ok >>> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 Ok >>> QUIT 221 garnet.rutgers.edu closing connection kish@garnet... Sent ... So far so good. However, I get a message back from the SGI's postmaster which says: From Postmaster@garnet.rutgers.edu Tue Apr 18 14:48:01 1989 Received: from garnet.rutgers.edu by jove.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.1/3.04) id AA10117; Tue, 18 Apr 89 14:47:57 EDT Received: from kish.rutgers.edu by garnet.rutgers.edu (5.52/1.15) id AA05734; Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:09 EDT Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:09 EDT From: Postmaster@garnet.rutgers.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <8904182214.AA05734@garnet.rutgers.edu> To: <kish@jove.rutgers.edu> Status: R ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>> HELO garnet.rutgers.edu <<< 553 garnet.rutgers.edu I refuse to talk to myself 554 <kish@garnet.rutgers.edu>... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: from kish.rutgers.edu by garnet.rutgers.edu (5.52/1.15) id AA05729; Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:09 EDT Received: by kish.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.1/3.04) id AA05570; Tue, 18 Apr 89 14:47:43 EDT Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 14:47:43 EDT From: kish@jove.rutgers.edu Message-Id: <8904181847.AA05570@kish.rutgers.edu> To: kish@garnet.rutgers.edu Subject: testing from kish.rutgers.edu Hello to user kish on garnet.rutgers.edu ... Also, the following message gets logged in the SGI's /usr/adm/SYSLOG file: Apr 18 14:50:28 garnet.rutgers.edu sendmail[5695]: mailer error, mailer=tcp error=69 ... I tried calling the Geometry Hotline, but after two weeks or so, I was told that the developers know there is a problem but that I would have to use it the way it is until they got around to fixing it. The problem supposedly had something to do with sendmail and nameservice. The version of sendmail running on the SGI is 5.52 - does anyone know if this version of sendmail knows how to work with a nameserver ? And how about MX records ? Can anyone tell me what "tcp error=69" means (here again, the Geometry Hotline either couldn't or wouldn't say specifically what it was) ? And just to thicken the plot, I can send mail from garnet.rutgers.edu to kish.rutgers.edu with no problem ! Thanks, Bill Kish email: kish@jove.rutgers.edu ps. I would have posted the config file I'm using, but this is message is long enough as it is. I will happily supply it to anyone interested. pss. The host jove.rutgers.edu is the mail server for kish.rutgers.edu