[CS-FSLUG] Sending E-mail's via Network

[David M.]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:31 pm, Frank Bax wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 7/27/04, David M. wrote:
> >On Tuesday 27 July 2004 01:12 pm, David M. wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 12:12 pm, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:47, David M. wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 11:41 am, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> > > > > > Hm... there are a lot of ways. How do you want it to work. First,
> > > > > > does buddy have an SMTP server on it? If you don't know, you
> > > > > > could portscan with nmap and see if it pops up or just telnet to
> > > > > > the smtp port on buddy.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah I have an SMTP server on it. This is what I use for sending my
> > > > > regular mail such as this one.
> > > >
> > > > Do you have 2 NICs and only have SMTP on the outside one? Does the
> > > > SMTP server know where buddy is? Have you tried localhost instead of
> > > > buddy? I'm basically just trying to follow the path all the way
> > > > through and figure out where the connection drops off. If you can
> > > > confirm it into the SMTP server, you then have to confirm it out. If
> > > > not, it's lost in there somewhere and it's time to figure out where
> > > > the log is for it.
> > >
> > > I only have 1 nic. I did figure out one thing I was doing wrong, I was
> > > using this e-mail address to send the mail to my local network which is
> > > located somewhere else and not on my network and it was trying to send
> > > the mail through that server that resides in florida.
> > >
> > > So I created a new identity for sending mail on the network here
> > > locally so the mail will not try to go thru the server in florida and
> > > should go straight to my mailbox here on this computer.
> > >
> > > Also when I try to retreive mail, I noticed an error: "Transmission
> > > failed: Could not lock /var/spool/mail/dmcglone"
> > >
> > > Whats that mean?
> >
> >Ok now I figured out that I have to send mail to dmcglone at localhost for it
> > to work correctly, and I cannot send mail to dmclgone at buddy. Why is this
> > so? can I change it so it will send mail to dmcglone at buddy instead of
> >dmcglone at localhost?
> >
> >Here's an example header of what worked:
> >
> >hello from dmcglone's local account
> >
> >From:
> >"David M." <dmcglone at buddy.Buddy>
> >
> >
> >To:
> >dmcglone at localhost.Buddy
> >
> >
> >Date:
> >Today 01:24:26 pm
> >
> >I see that it's from dmcglone at buddy.buddy, but sending mail to
> >dmcglone at buddy.buddy produces nothing but lost mail somewhere.
> >--
> >David M.
>
> I'm certainly no expert in this area,
me either. 

> but I think you are getting 
> buddy.buddy and localhost.buddy because the system needs to resolve partial
> host names (without a period) into a fully qualify hostname (with at least
> one period).  I think it uses /etc/resolv.conf to do this - my guess is you
> have a line 'search buddy' in there which adds '.buddy' to the end of the
> 'buddy' hostname that contained no periods.  Somedays I like to make
> statements like this simply to see if anyone tells me I don't know what I'm
> talking about.

any info creates clues which eventually becomes a solution. :-)

here's my etc/resolv.conf
[root at Buddy root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search wowway.com

woway.com is from Wide Open West, my cable internet provider. I now wonder if 
because  WOW automatically takes care of this, it is contributing to my 
problems.
-- 
David M.