Re: [gentoo-server] qmail woes

[Andrew Gaffney]

Ben Munat wrote:
> I'm really, really hoping that someone on this list is a qmail wizard...
> I'm completely stuck.
>
> I've written a Java Servlet application which I'm running on my gentoo
> server. When a transaction is completed, the servlet uses JavaMail to
> send an email regarding the transaction. The problem is that I keep
> getting "553 sorry, that domain isn't in ... rcpthosts".
>
> I've read up extensivley on lifewithqmail.org and palomine.net/qmail and
> I understand the purpose of rcpthosts. I have the domain name of the
> server in rcpthosts, but it still doesn't work. I tried localhost,
> 127.0.0.1, and the actual ip address of the server in rcphosts... still
> no go.
>
> It would seem that one of those entries in rcpthosts would work, but
> since it didn't I also tried setting up tcpserver to allow the
> connection from itself. Following the palomine.net example I made a
> tcp.smtp file like this:
>
> x.x.x.x:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> :allow
>
> where x.x.x.x is my server's ip address. And I compiled it into
> tcp.smtp.cdb. But still, it doesn't work...

First, make sure that both 127.0.0.1 and your LAN IP have entries in 
/etc/tcp.smtp. For example, mine is:

192.168.254.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl"
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl"
:allow,QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl"

Unless you're using qmail-scanner, you wouldn't need the QMAILQUEUE part.

When you say "servlet", what do you mean (I'm not exactly familiar with that 
term)? Is it running server-side or in a client's browser? If it is running in a 
client's browser, then it is connecting from that IP instead of your server's IP 
address. If it is server-side, adding 127.0.0.1 to /etc/tcp.smtp may do the trick.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548