RE: [cobalt-users] Qube2 DNS and Mail settings

["Bob Kirk" <rfkirk@xxxxxxxx>]

The answer ended up being so simple I could kick myself...RTFM... I went to
the Cobalt site and read their FAQ's under email and found that I should
have the IP 192.168.1 in the allow relay from domain block of the email
parameters.  the reason for 192.168.1 and not the last place is to allow all
users on the NAT to be able to send mail.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mat Kovach
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 11:41 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 DNS and Mail settings
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:05:28AM -0600, Bob Kirk wrote:
> : Arrrgh.  I am going crazy over this.
>
> I went crazy several years ago and decieded staying in that state was
> much better :)
>
> : My Qube has been up for one week and I have had to wait on my ISP and
> : InterNic to populate my domain and IP address to the known world, and I
> : still cannot send or receive mail from the Qube.  Now I realize
> that after
> : the changes appear to be populated that the continuing problems
> are mine.
>
> The Qube's using sendmail (http://www.sendmail.org) to provide
> SMTP services.
> I strongly recommend checking out their site for info.  If you understand
> exactly what sendmail does and expects, you'll make more sense out of the
> error messages you are getting.
>
> : Here is a brief status of two settings (Email services and DNS).
> :
> : EMail -
> : Delivery Frequency is Immediate
> : Retrieval has no settings
> : Advanced relay is set to machine.xyz.com and xyz.com (not really xyz, my
> : domain and machine names are here)
> :
> : DNS
> : xyz.com > 192.168.1.1
> : www.xyz.com > 192.168.1.1
> : 192.168.1.1 > xyz.com
> : xyz.com - very high - machine.xyz.com
> :
> : Ok so here is what happens I can get to my Web page either from my ADSL
> : connection (what the Qube is attached to) and from a dial up account
> : (Earthlink), so no Web problems, just email
>
> So we can assume your ISP provider is allowing port 25 (the port SMTP mail
> connects to your machine on through), good.
>
> : Email from both accounts I get a message when I try to send TO the Qube
> : hosted domain, the message states, that it could not be sent
> because, one of
> : the recipients was rejected by the server no relaying allowed
> SMTP server
> : (my IP address)
>
> Or you trying to recieve mail on the Qube or relay it.  If have the mail
> accepted by the qube you have to make sure the domain name is
> /etc/sendmail.cw
>
> : When I try to send mail FROM the Qube it states 550 me@xxxxxxx
> host unknown
> : (nameserver xyz.com - no data known)
>
> Sendmail is saying that it can not find your domain name, hmm..
>
> Make sure things are setup correctly in /etc/hosts.
>
> I might need more info to help you out, if you don't want your domain and
> ip address known, contact me privately and I'll try to help you further.
>
> :
> : Any thoughts, guidance, medication, assistance will be appreciated.
>
> Beer, the solution and cause of all life's problems.
>
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> Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net
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