mail rejected by some providers becaus of sender

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by cotthemh, May 23, 2007.

  1. cotthemh

    cotthemh New Member

    Hello,

    some of my mail gets rejected because it comes from [email protected]ldomain

    this happens if i send mail from for instance PHP the mail log is below.

    the problem is this mail gets send from within an application (mediawiki) so its a little hard to control, i would like to change the system wide default behaviour so the mail would be sent from [email protected]
    which is also the hostname

    if you type hostname you get gargamel.domain.tld.

    probably something simple but i don't know where to change it,

    many thanks in advance,

    Herwig

    May 23 20:52:27 gargamel sendmail[22473]: l4NIqRkR022473: to="Ivo.xxx" <[email protected]>, ctladdr=apache (48/48), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30700, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 3BA5C8209A2)
    May 23 20:52:27 gargamel postfix/smtp[22474]: 3BA5C8209A2: to=<[email protected]>, relay=in.mx.skynet.be[195.238.5.129]:25, delay=0.14, delays=0.08/0.01/0.04/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host in.mx.skynet.be[195.238.5.129] said: 553 #5.1.8 Domain of sender address <[email protected]> does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's the output of
    Code:
    hostname -f
    ? What's in /etc/hosts, and what the value of ServerName in the Apache vhost configuration of the web site from which the mails are sent?
     
  3. jbatres

    jbatres New Member

    apache in return-path problem

    I have the same problem with my sites but the difference is that my sites are all IP based. I configured MASQUERADING in sendmail.mc to correct the return-path but it only works when I telnet. I just got the server and I know that Apache is not configured. Can you guys please give me an idea of what i need to modify in order to correct the return-path for emails generated by the scripts on my sites? here is my server configuration:

    Ensim Pro X for Linux 20 Domains
    Redhat Enterprise Linux - OS ES 4.0

    * OpenSSH
    * Apache (not configured)
    * Perl
    * Mod_perl
    * Mod_ssl
    I've been working on this issue for three weeks now and I still can't get it to work. Thanks for your help
     
  4. cotthemh

    cotthemh New Member

    hostname -f
    gives me localdomain.localhost

    hostname
    gives me the correct hostname

    the hostfile :
    127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost gargamel.domain.tld

    the servername variable
    ServerName=gargamel.domain.tld
     
  5. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Ok, what's the server's IP address? Which distribution do you use?
     
  6. cotthemh

    cotthemh New Member

    i use fC6.

    the ip adress is 192.168.50.10 on one card and 192.168.60.10 on the other card

    the first adress is the adress of the DMZ zone of the router, the second adress is the local backend network (which is used to take backups of the server)

    Both ports have internet access, but all incoming mail goes through the dmz zone.

    best regards,

    Herwig
     
  7. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    You can set the hostname to gargamel.domain.tld in /etc/sysconfig/network.

    And in /etc/hosts, you should create a line of its own for gargamel.domain.tld (not in the 127.0.0.1 line).
     

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