[NBLUG/talk] senamail configuration help

Glen Gunsalus g-gunsalus at mindspring.com
Mon Mar 24 09:50:03 PST 2003


I'm trying to deal with what I perceive as a sendmail configuration issue.

I just upgraded to RH7.3 and am encountering problems delivering mail
from my ISP to sendmail via fetchmail.  This is something I did routinely
on 7.0.

I suspect the problem is with the newer version of sendmail and it's
anti-spamming goodies.

I'm getting "access denied" from SMTP (see below) which I'm guessing
has to do with relay or anti-spam, but I'm a neophyte here.

Here's what I have:

vanilla RH7.3 update (no patches)
using non-routed 192.168.1. for local networking.
unregistered (internal/non-routed) domain name: gunsalusvineyard.com
bogus hostname of gv.gunsalusvineyard.com

I have dial-up ppp connection to my ISP (mindspring.com)
   - can ping internet, e.g. sonic.net
   - ok for Netscape web browsing - so DNS lookups must be ok.

Here's my netstat -r:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
Iface
sdn-ar-014casfr *               255.255.255.255 UH       40 0          0 
ppp0
192.168.2.0     *               255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 
eth1
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 
eth0
172.16.159.0    *               255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 
vmnet8
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U        40 0          0 lo
default         sdn-ar-014casfr 0.0.0.0         UG       40 0          0 
ppp0

When I try to do my fetchmail I get the following:

fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying pop.mindspring.com (protocol POP3) at Mon 24 
Mar 2003 09:23:48 AM PST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK NGPopper vEL_4_29 at mindspring.com ready 
<3729.1048526629 at habersham.mail.mindspring.net>
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< user
fetchmail: POP3< pass
fetchmail: POP3< top
fetchmail: POP3< uidl
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER g-gunsalus
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK g-gunsalus has 7 messages (24721 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 7 24721
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 5
7 messages (5 seen) for g-gunsalus at pop.mindspring.com (24721 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2924
fetchmail: POP3< 2 5148
fetchmail: POP3< 3 3430
fetchmail: POP3< 4 2356
fetchmail: POP3< 5 8957
fetchmail: POP3< 6 952
fetchmail: POP3< 7 954
fetchmail: POP3< .
skipping message 1 (2924 octets) not flushed
skipping message 2 (5148 octets) not flushed
skipping message 3 (3430 octets) not flushed
skipping message 4 (2356 octets) not flushed
skipping message 5 (8957 octets) not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 6 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
reading message 6 of 7 (952 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 gv.gunsalusvineyard.com ESMTP Sendmail 
8.11.6/8.11.6; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:23:54 -0800
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-gv.gunsalusvineyard.com Hello 
IDENT:Zc7sA2x1UKcgehxGYJxY4knur8oaTiPN at localhost.localdomain 
[127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<g-gunsalus at mindspring.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.0.0 Access denied
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 6
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 7 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
reading message 7 of 7 (954 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<g-gunsalus at mindspring.com>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.0.0 Access denied
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 7
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 gv.gunsalusvineyard.com closing connection
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0

Anyone have ideas/pointers as to where I should be looking to fix this?

Thanks for any advice.




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