Re: Sendmail not able to send to external addresses.

[MKlinke <mklinke axsi com>]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 13:56, Cleveland mail winnefox org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My head's becoming awfully bruised from banging it on my desk. I'm
> hoping someone can help me out. I've got a redhat 9 box running
> sendmail, spamassassin, and mailscanner. When I send an email from
> that box to my exchange server, it works fine. Now, if I try to send
> mail to an external email, such as my home address, it doesn't work
> at all. I end up getting an undeliverable message back. I looked at
> my maillog, and it says this:
>
> Jul 31 13:19:17 mystique sendmail[22305]: h6UCACSC011093:
> to=<jody 4clevelands com>, ctladdr=<ellis winlit org> (503/503),
> delay=1+06:09:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=11190430,
> relay=4clevelands.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused
> by 4clevelands.com.
>
> Any ideas?

Does the "undeliverable message" you get back say anything worthwhile as 
concerns the problem? DNS=4.0.0 is a general temporary transient 
failure code.

Assuming that 4clevelands.com is your "home address domain" does that 
maillog show any clues?

Regards,  Mike Klinke