General Problems

[Rick Stevens]

Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> I'll check again tonight but I believe this was everything in this log file from about 21:16 (the entry just before this one) to the end of the log file.
> 
> As far as I know I don't have PINE or the email part of Mozilla pointed anywhere other than my machine (SMTP) when sending email.  Could someone point me where to look in either Pine or Mozilla and Evolution to compare my setups?

That's the issue.  Your machine is trying to send the outgoing email
outside of Comcast's network and they're blocking it.  So, the outgoing
mail can't be delivered and your machine logs an error which gets sent
back to your mail client (Mozilla or Evolution or whatever).

The settings in Mozilla are in:

     Edit->Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings->Outgoing Server

In Evolution, they're in:

     Tools->Mail Accounts

Select an account and click "Edit".  The outgoing server is in the
"Sending Mail" tab.

> I really appreciate all the help - I'm sure enjoying using Linux at home - keeps the brain cells growing.

Mine hit meltdown LONG ago. :-P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:37 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: General Problems
> 
> 
> Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> 
>>Rick and Andy,
>>
>>Here is the information from /var/log/maillog.  I didn't wipe out my domain information as it's too much work 8^)
>>
>>>From looking at this I'm thinking my problem is that my return email address does not match my machines domain address but I don't know how to get around this problem (and I would think that everyone would have this problem).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Brad
>>
>>
>>Mar 16 21:27:31 mugleston sendmail[2761]: i2H4RL7T002761: 
>>Authentication-Warning: mugleston.mugs.net: brad set sender to 
>>brad.mugleston at comcast.net using -f
>>Mar 16 21:27:31 mugleston sendmail[2761]: i2H4RL7T002761: 
>>from=brad.mugleston at comcast.net, size=575, class=0, nrcpts=0, 
>>msgid=<1076383974.1606.7.camel at mugleston>, relay=brad at localhost
> 
> 
> Eh, not enough.  Find the line with the same ID (i2H4RL7T002761) that
> contains the DSN information.  That will tell us what the error was.
> 
> Since you're on Comcast, it's entirely possible that they've started
> blocking outgoing port 25 to anything outside their network.  Most ISPs
> do that now (it's an attempt to prevent their customers from being
> spammers).  To test, bring up an xterm and enter:
> 
> 	telnet smtp.root-mail.com 25
> 
> If you don't get an SMTP welcome message, port 25 is being blocked and
> you'll need to aim your Evolution stuff to use Comcast's SMTP servers.
> Of course, this will screw the envelope "From:" line so it won't be
> your domain anymore.  If you have a business connection, tell them you
> want port 25 opened up and leave your stuff set up the way it is.
> 
> If you _do_ get an SMTP welcome message, type in "quit" to terminate the
> connection and send us the rest of that /var/log/maillog stuff.
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Andrew Kelly [mailto:akelly at transparency.org]
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:48 AM
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: General Problems
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 19:37, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Mugleston, Brad wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>********
>>>>Error while performing operation:
>>>>sendmail exited with status 64: mail not sent
>>>
>>>Error 64 is "EX_USAGE", meaning that the command line sent to sendmail
>>>was bogus.  I'd like to see what your /var/log/maillog file says about
>>>what was attempted.
>>
>>
>>
>>Ditto.
>>And please give us a bit of info on your sendmail setup. Maybe you could 
>>list the output of
>>	sendmail -d0.10 -bt</dev/null
>>Go ahead and wipe the domain information if  you're more comfortable 
>>that way.
>>
>>Andy
>>
>>
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