Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail X-Auth-Warning httpd owned process doing

["Edward Motler" <edward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- >
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:35:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail X-Auth-Warning httpd owned process
doing
>  -bs
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Edward Motler wrote:
> >
> > I've got a right headache here, checked cobalt/sun k.base, forums and
with
> > my ISP demon in the UK no dice.
> > The problem is I have a new Qube3 on an office network. We recieve mail
via
> > maildrop fine. But cannot send.
> > The maillog reads like this:
> > ---
> > Jul 29 23:14:23 comms sendmail[22489]: g6TGYke03048:
to=edward@xxxxxxxxxx,
> > ctladdr=admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (500/100), delay=05:39:36,
> > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=2190233, relay=post.mail.demon.net.,
> > dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by post.mail.demon.net.
> > ---
> > No matter who we send to or weather the smart relay is on or off. The
> > connection is always refused.
> > However the the mail was working last Friday before we changed the
hostname
> > and public IP address.
> > Now in the returned mail headers that can't be delivered I get this
> > interesting 'X-Auth' error.
>
>  Does post.mail.demon.net KNOW it is to relay email for your new ip
>  address / hostname?

> Additional thought, .demon.net may have a firewall blocking your access.
  _____________________________________
We phoned demon(www.demon.net) a number of times and they say that we should
have no problem relaying on any of the 5 IP's assigned to the ADSL line.
They can see the ADSL router & the Qube and have confirmed that all
incomming traffic to them on the ADSL line is open and that relaying our
smtp traffic is defacto (inc. No firewall blockage).

My initial thought after seeing the bounced mail headers was, 'What's that
X-Authority-Warning?'. I've never seen that in a mail before. Does it mean t
hat sendmail is being initiated by a non-trusted user, as it refers to httpd
? Or as the reply was from httpd@localhost is the recieveing mail server
'post.mail.demon.net' refusing the connection as it thinks that the sending
mail server is an open relay?

I have to confess that whilst I bash the shell a lot sendmail is beyond my
'confident' administration when you get down to the 'sendmail.cf' file, so
I've kept my hands off it. So I haven't modified anything and don't know how
to if sendmail is for some bizarre reason running as an invalid user. (Also
past experiance has proved to me, that whilst the Cobalt GUI is pretty
robust, it can be broken by modifying local services, if you give the shell
a good work out!)

Thanks for the reply,

Ed.