OT Taking care of mail errors and dnsreport.com

Wed Feb 2 16:51:41 GMT 2005

My alias file seems to be /etc/aliases and it has:
#
#  Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from #  Mail, but
WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail.
#
#       >>>>>>>>>>      The program "newaliases" must be run after
#       >> NOTE >>      this file is updated for any changes to
#       >>>>>>>>>>      show through to sendmail.
#

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
mailer-daemon:  postmaster
postmaster:     root

Then some other entries..............
Then ...

# mailman aliases
mailman:        postmaster
mailman-owner:  mailman

newsadm:        news
newsadmin:      news
usenet:         news
ftpadm:         ftp
ftpadmin:       ftp
ftp-adm:        ftp
ftp-admin:      ftp

# trap decode to catch security attacks
decode:         root

# Person who should get root's mail
root:           administrator at woodmaclaw.com

---------- In my mailertable I have this....
woodmaclaw.com          esmtp:[10.1.1.2]
www.woodmaclaw.com      esmtp:[10.1.1.2]

---------- In my relay-domains I have this....
Woodmaclaw.com
www.woodmaclaw.com

I am confused about naming the mailscanner.woodmaclaw.local to
mailscanner.woodmaclaw.com.  Do I need to do this even though the computer
is in my local domain?

Seems like you have a similar setup as me?  I have...
--- path of mail ----
Internet
My csu/dsu 68.xxx.xxx.xxx
My router (linux smoothwall distro)
My mailscanner machine (mailscanner.woodmaclaw.local) My MS Exchange machine
(woodendc.woodmaclaw.local)

Billy Pumphrey
IT Manager
Wooden & McLaughlin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Miller [mailto:Kevin_Miller at CI.JUNEAU.AK.US]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:32 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: OT Taking care of mail errors and dnsreport.com
>
> Billy Pumphrey wrote:
> > I don't know where to get better help, so I am hoping that
> someone can
> > shoot an answer to these problems.  I got digging and it
> looks like I
> > do not have the best setup.
> >
> > Here is my basic setup:
> > Mailscanner is the gateway between the internet and my MS Exchange
> > server. MailScanner running RulesDeJour, SpamAssassin, and Sophos.
> > Linux release 9, Kernel 2.4.20-8.
> > Spamassassin version 2.61
> > MailScanner version 4.25-14
> >
> > http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=woodmaclaw.com
> >
> > I believe that these errors are coming from my mailscanner machine
> > name mailscanner.woodmaclaw.local.  I do not know how to configure
> > sendmail to accept the postmaster address for example.  All
> of those
> > warnings and errors in that report I would guess would be a
> good idea
> > to get fixed?
> >
> > What started me on this and what I really need to get fixed
> is there
> > is a domain that is having problems with emails getting to my
> > mailserver.
> > From houseinvestments.com.  Error like this are coming =
> 550 5.7.1 we
> > do not relay.
> >
> > I havce searched and searched on this error and tried to
> see what the
> > problem is on the exchange server.  I cannot find what the
> problem is.
> > Any help on getting these errors taken care of is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> I'm not a sendmail guru by any stretch.  Probably even more clueless
> than most <g>, but I'll chime in anyway.  Keeps me humble.
>
> What do you have in your alias file in /etc/sendmail?  I have a line
> that
> says:
>
>   postmaster:   root
>
> (use a tab ot separate the above entries)
>
> My MailScanner box is just a gateway so I also added a .forward file
> in /root which contains the address to forward to on our internal mail
> server.
>
> It may be as simple as changing the name of the server to .com instead
> of .local though.  If that's not in the cards, then I'd look at using
> mailertable to define what hosts you forward mail to.  Without knowing
> your network layout, I'd offer this:  The internet facing machine
> should be named mail.woodmaclaw.com, and if it just accepts and
> forwards mail to an internal host it should have entries in the
> relay-domain file for what domains it will accept for and in the
> mailertable for where to send them.  At least that's how I'm set up
> and it works for me.  Hope this helps...
>
>
> ...Kevin
> --
> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
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