sendmail can't send to hotmail address

[agabriel at home.tzo.org (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

It hangs for a few minutes, but the email should go through.  I noticed
that started with hotmail late last week.  Not sure whats going on over
there, maybe they are tranisitioning to an exchange server....

Anthony

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Phil Buckley wrote:

> I'm running a RedHat 7.1 box, equipped with sendmail 8.11.2 and a
> simple firewall...
> 
> The trouble I ran into this morning is a new one to me... I set up a
> user in /etc/mail/virtusertable with a pointer to her hotmail account,
> then ran a basic "sendmail -bv -d27 user at virtualdomain.com" test on
> it.... and it just hung.
> 
> So I started with the easy stuff, re-re-built the hash, re-re-started
> sendmail and tried again, same problem...
> 
> Checked my firewall, access files, stuff like that... nothing even
> remotely close that would stop it...
> 
> Checked some stuff on goggle groups... Apparently I'm not alone...
> 
> Found these in comp.sendmail:
> ======================
> 1: Jan Albin "rediscovered" (in another thread) problemcaused by
> blocking
> tcp queries via tcp by firewall [ it was discussed long time ago in the
> 
> group ]
> and suggests that hoymail problem may be caused by it.
> Some replies are too big to fit in udp packet so DNS server/resolver
> tries
> to contact a remote DNS server via tcp which is blocked.
> 
> 2: Opening up the firewall to allow DNS on port 53 TCP solved the
> problem.
> ======================
> 
> So I opened up my firewall as suggested ( I started my firewall using
> pmfirewall):
> 
> #DNS
> $IPCHAINS -A input -p tcp -s $REMOTENET -d $OUTERNET 53 -j ACCEPT
> $IPCHAINS -A input -p udp -s $REMOTENET -d $OUTERNET 53 -j ACCEPT
> 
> $REMOTENET = 0/0
> $OUTERNET = eth0 (outside nic)
> 
> I mapped a user topoint at my own hotmail account...
> phil at domain.com	guy_nearby at hotmail.com
> ---makehash
> --restart sendmail
> 
> # sendmail -bv -d27.99,28.99,60.99 phil at mydomain.com
> setalias(/etc/aliases)
>   map implicit:Alias0 /etc/aliases
> map_lookup(dequote, phil, %0=phil) => NOT FOUND (0)
> udbmatch(phil, mailname)
> db_open(/etc/mail/userdb.db): No such file or directory
> map_lookup(host, mydomain.com, %0=mydomain.com) => mydomain.com. (0)
> map_lookup(dequote, phil, %0=phil) => NOT FOUND (0)
> map_lookup(virtuser, phil at mydomain.com, %0=phil at mydomain.com, %1=phil)
> => guy_nearby at hotmail.com (0)
> map_lookup(host, hotmail.com, %0=hotmail.com) =>
> .... still hanging .....
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA,
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
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