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From: John Lowry <johnlowry@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail: write permition problem?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:27:06
Message-Id: 4AF9CC93.7090709@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] sendmail: write permition problem? by Jarry
1 Jarry wrote:
2 > 220 mail.somemydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.0/8.14.0; Tue, 10 Nov 2009
3 > 19:57:31 GMT
4 > HELO
5 > 501 5.0.0 HELO requires domain address
6
7 >
8 > Q1: Why on my "HELO" sendmail does not respond with "250 OK"?
9
10 The hostname in the HELO message needs to be included. It does not
11 unnecessarily need to be correct, but a lot of anti-spam measures will
12 reject it out of hand if the originating IP address does not have a PTR
13 address that matches it. So if you are connection from foo.example.com
14
15 HELO foo.example.com
16
17 >
18 > Q2: What does that "Cannot write ./dfnAAJvV8n022567" mean?
19 > Maybe some write-permition on server side? But what/where?
20 >
21 > --------------------------------
22 > mail.somemydomain.com ~ # ls -al /var/spool
23 > total 28
24 > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 30 17:40 .
25 > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 9 19:30 ..
26 > drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Nov 10 19:37 clientmqueue
27 > drwxr-x--- 3 root cron 4096 Apr 7 2009 cron
28 > drwsrws--- 2 fcron fcron 4096 Nov 10 20:00 fcron
29 > drwxr-xr-x 2 mail root 4096 Apr 7 2009 mail
30 > drwxr-xr-x 2 smmsp root 4096 Apr 24 2009 mqueue
31 >
32 > mail.somemydomain.com ~ # more /etc/passwd | grep mail
33 > mail:x:8:12:added by portage for mailbase:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
34 > postmaster:x:14:1000:added by portage for
35 > mailbase:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
36 > smmsp:x:209:209:added by portage for
37 > sendmail:/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
38 > mail.somemydomain.com ~ #
39 > --------------------------------
40 >
41 > I just installed sendmail on mail.somemydomain.com instead
42 > of ssmtp, and did not change a lot, just included all my
43 > server names in /etc/mail/local-host-names. What do I have
44 > to do more???
45 >
46 > Jarry
47 >