[comp.mail.sendmail] Using sendmail over ethernet

fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Frans van Otten) (06/16/89)

Hello,

We have two computers, both running sendmail, with an ethernet between
them.  Our problem is that we can't get sendmail to send mail over the
ethernet.  The ethernet mailer is defined as follows (on both machines):

Mether, P=[IPC]         F=uhnFDmIX, S=18, R=19, A=IPC $h

#  u  Preserve upper case in user names for this mailer
#  h  Preserve upper case in host names for this mailer
#  n  Don't insert Unix "From" line
#  F  This mailer wants a "From:" header line
#  D  This mailer wants a "Date:" header line
#  m  This mailer can send to multiple users at one call
#  I  This mailer talks SMTP to another sendmail
#  X  This mailer uses the hidden dot algorithm (rfc 821)

The computers are:

  - a Sequent Balance, Dynix, running sendmail 4.12
  - an HP9000-835, HP-UX, running sendmail 14.2

When mailing to one to the other, sendmail returns with:

  reply: read error
  Deferred: Host is down

The messages remain in the mail queue, but on the HP the message is
also returned to the sender.  It contains the transcript of the session,
and the message:

  ----- Transcript of session follows -----

sendmail: fransvo@maestro... reply: read error
451 fransvo@maestro... reply: read error
554 smtpquit IPC: stat 69

We have daemons running on both machines:

/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h

If you have hints on why this doesn't work, please mail them to us.
We don't understand why this doesn't work.
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