Re: [cobalt-users] very basic email setup

[James Dory <engineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I'm sorry but I've been sending messages to this subject and not 
seeing them. If others have replied since earlier this morning I haven't 
seen it. I quit getting messages for most of the afternoon and am 
getting them again now.

But to recap:

raq4r behind firewall. Raq is named www.nomecity.org, which that domain 
name is registered on register.com and is using their dns servers. I 
have created another site called www.nomealaska.org upon which I want to 
use as web and email server, also registered at register.com and both 
sites pointing to same IP no.

A records at register.com:
nomealaska.org => 24.237.254.24
www.nomealaska.org => 24.237.254.24
MX record:
nomealaska.org  Hi priority  nomealaska.org

I have to trust that they do automatic reverse mapping for the A records 
because I don't see that option on their site. When creating A records, 
it is just domain name points to IP address.

We have internet connectivity through GCI, so in Control Panel, Email 
parameters, I have smart relay set for smtp.gci.net. I have nothing in 
the Relay for hosts/domains and nothing in the Host/domain Aliases. I do 
have POP b4 relay checked.

On SiteSettings for nomealaska.org, I have
www = hostname
nomealaska.org = domain name
nomealaska.org = web server alias
nomealaska.org = email alias

I have set up users with a username say s-crowe and email aliases of 
sarah_crowe, etc.

I can send with these accounts, but not receive. I get reject:550 relay 
denied for sarah_crowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I've been reading up on sendmail and did the following:
sendmail -bt
/map virtuser sarah_crowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and it returns no match.
/map virtuser sarah_crowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and it returns s-crowe (0).

I also tried
sendmail -bt -C sendmail.cf
/tryflags hs
nothing...
/try esmtp sarah-crowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and it seemed to be fine.. returning sarah-crowe < @ nomealaska . org  . >
on the tests it runs through.

I don't know if this helps.

I also added a relay-hosts file (or whatever it is, I forget), added 
www.nomealaska.org to that file, restarted sendmail just to see what 
would happen. When I sent a test message, it seemed to go into a loop 
(watching maillog) with it saying things like (Message received: 
H9GBR001.3AK) over and over again. But never showed up in the accounts. 
I then deleted the file and restarted sendmail.

So I'm stuck.

--
Jim Dory, Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604