[ILUG] null client configuration for sendmail

[Walter Faleiro]

Bingo Badger,
Thats all I needed. The setup works fine with sendmail stopped. Hence there
is no local mail server running.

Thanks for your help.

--Walter

On 8/31/06, Badger <badger at scattermail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:36:08PM +0100, Badger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:05:21AM +0530, Walter Faleiro wrote:
> > > Hi Badger,
> > > As I had said earlier, the configuration did not work as it still sent
> the
> > > mail to walter at fedora.example.com instead of watler at example.com.
> > > Will work with what the further post says and call it quits.
> > >
> > > Thanks again,
> > > --Walter.
> > >
>
>
> My last post should give you a workable solution to your problem, but I
> just wanted to add an additional note about the nullclient configuration
> that we discussed initially. An important point that you didn't seem to
> pick up on was that the nullclient configuration actually works for me -
> it does what you want it to do. I provide the relevant output below for
> you to inspect.
>
> At this point of the thread you suggested that what you actually wanted
> was to have mail delivered directly to your server server02 - you said:
>
>    "How do I make the first one connect to server02 via relay
>     instead of connecting to 127.0.0.1"
>
> This is what led me to changing th configuration of submit.mc and heading
> down that road (which also works).
>
> The point is that these solutions actually work. If none of it is
> working for you it suggests to me that something other than sendmail
> is misconfigured on your fedora box: your DNS, your hostname, your
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, or something else like that. It really looks
> to me that sendmail is not to blame.
>
>
> This is the sendmail.mc that you provided:
>
> -- snip --
> divert(-1)dnl
> dnl #
> dnl # This is the sendmail macro config file for m4. If you make changes
> to
> dnl # /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, you will need to regenerate the
> dnl # /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file by confirming that the sendmail-cf
> package
> is
> dnl # installed and then performing a
> dnl #
> dnl #     make -C /etc/mail
> dnl #
> include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
> VERSIONID(`Nullclient for Linux')dnl
> OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
> DOMAIN(`generic')dnl
> FEATURE(`nullclient',`example.com')dnl
> undefine(`ALIAS_FILE')dnl
> -- snip --
>
>
> When I run sendmail with this configuration, it works perfectly (read it
> fully):
>
>
> [badger at kermit sendmail.01] echo "big test" | mail -v -s "test mail"
> badger
> badger... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
> 220 kermit.example.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.7/8.13.7; Thu, 31 Aug 2006
> 15:32:14 +0100
> >>> EHLO kermit.example.com
> 250-kermit.example.com Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to
> meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-EXPN
> 250-VERB
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
> >>> VERB
> 250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
> >>> MAIL From:<badger at kermit.example.com> SIZE=38
> 250 2.1.0 <badger at kermit.example.com>... Sender ok
> >>> RCPT To:<badger at kermit.example.com>
> >>> DATA
> 250 2.1.5 <badger at kermit.example.com>... Recipient ok
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> >>> .
> 050 <badger at kermit.example.com>... Connecting to mail.example.com. via
> relay...
> 050 220 gonzo.example.com ESMTP Postfix
> 050 >>> EHLO kermit.example.com
> 050 250-gonzo.example.com
> 050 250-PIPELINING
> 050 250-SIZE 10240000
> 050 250-VRFY
> 050 250-ETRN
> 050 250-STARTTLS
> 050 250 8BITMIME
> 050 >>> STARTTLS
> 050 220 Ready to start TLS
> 050 >>> EHLO kermit.example.com
> 050 250-gonzo.example.com
> 050 250-PIPELINING
> 050 250-SIZE 10240000
> 050 250-VRFY
> 050 250-ETRN
> 050 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
> 050 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
> 050 250 8BITMIME
> 050 >>> MAIL From:<badger at example.com> SIZE=321
> 050 250 Ok
> 050 >>> RCPT To:<badger at example.com>
> 050 >>> DATA
> 050 250 Ok
> 050 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
> 050 >>> .
> 050 250 Ok: queued as 7DBD7C994
> 050 <badger at kermit.example.com>... Sent (Ok: queued as 7DBD7C994)
> 250 2.0.0 k7VEWETT005146 Message accepted for delivery
> badger... Sent (k7VEWETT005146 Message accepted for delivery)
> Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
> >>> QUIT
> 221 2.0.0 kermit.example.com closing connection
>
>
> This is what the headers on the mail look like at the end.
>
>    Return-Path: badger at example.com
>    X-Original-To: badger at example.com
>    Delivered-To: badger at example.com
>    Received: from kermit.example.com (kermit.example.com [172.16.12.1])
>            (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
>            (No client certificate requested)
>            by gonzo.example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBD7C994
>            for <badger at example.com>; Fri,  1 Sep 2006 00:37:40 +0900 (JST)
>    Received: from kermit.example.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
>            by kermit.example.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id
> k7VEWETT005146
>            for <badger at kermit.example.com>; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:32:14
> +0100
>    Received: (from badger at localhost)
>            by kermit.example.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k7VEWERc005145
>            for badger; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:32:14 +0100
>    Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:32:14 +0100
>    From: badger at example.com
>    Message-Id: <200608311432.k7VEWERc005145 at kermit.example.com>
>    To: badger at example.com
>    Subject: test mail
>
>
> Regards,
>
> - badge
>
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