Home Linux box can't send to AOL this week

[cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com (Christoph Doerbeck a242369)]

You sendmail.cf clearly indicates the use of a hash, and that
implies you needs to generate the hash file.  There is sometimes
a make file in /etc/mail, so running 'make mailertable.db' might
do the trick.

Other wise, run 

cd /etc/mail
makemap -f hash mailertable

Jeff Kinz wrote:
> Hi anthony , could you please not top post?
> Its much easier to track what has been done and the order it was done
> in when we follow the "bottom posting" standard.  thanks.
> 
> > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:34:01PM -0400, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> > > > What line do I need in my sendmail.cf file to look at a mailertable fil
> e?
> > > 
> > > Kmailertable hash -o  /etc/mailertable.db
> > > 
> > > Customize to suit your local config (i.e on Redhat 7.2 the mailtable file
> > > is kept in /etc/mail/mailertable.db)
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Anthony
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:59:50 -0400 (EDT)
> > > > > Rich Braun <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Have any of you gotten this, as a result of an apparent policy chan
> ge
> > > > > > at AOL in the past few days?  I have a Linux email server running
> > > > > > sendmail 8.12.9, connected to Comcast aka ATT-BI aka MediaOne,
> > > > > > formerly Continental Cable:
> > > > > This has been discussed in detail last month on GNHLUG.
> > > > > The solution is to set your /etc/mail/mailertable:
> > > > > aol.com	smtp:mail.attbi.com
> > > > > 
> > > > > Or another host. Remember that netscape.net addresses have the same
> > > > > problem.
> > > > > 
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:31:28PM -0400, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 	I'm doing this under solaris.  I have created an
> > /etc/mail/mailertable.db file that has these contents:
> > aol.com         smtp:mail.attbi.com
> > netscape.net    smatp:mail.attbi.com
> > 
> > I have also added this line to my senmail.cf
> > Kmailertable hash -o  /etc/mail/mailertable.db
> > 
> > Have a missed something - I still can't send to aol.com....  I really hate
> > aol anyway, why is this a concern....
> 
> Hi Anthony.
> 
> For sendmail configuration I use the sendmail.mc file which generates
> a sendmail.cf file using the m4 macro processor so I can't help you to
> much with direct sendmail.cf questions.  The information about 
>  Kmailertable hash -o  /etc/mail/mailertable.db
> comes directly from the O'Reilly bat book on sendmail.
> 
> I notice there are at least four lines in my generated sendmail.cf
> that deal with mailertables.  
>  grep mailertable sendmail.cf
> #####  $Id: mailertable.m4,v 8.18 1999/07/22 17:55:35 gshapiro Exp $  #####
> Kmailertable hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db
> R< $+ > $*              $: < $(mailertable $1 $) > $2   lookup
> ###  Ruleset 90 -- try domain part of mailertable entry         ###
> R$* <$- . $+ > $*       $: $1$2 < $(mailertable .$3 $@ $1$2 $@ $2 $) > $4
> R$* < $* > $*           $: < $(mailertable . $@ $1$2 $) > $3    try "."
> R< $* > $*              $@ $2                           no mailertable match
> 
> Can you use a sendmail.mc file instead?
> 
> Another easier fix is to just relay all of your mail through your 
> ISP mail service.
> 
> Looks like this in sendmail.mc:
> define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.attbi.com')dnl
> 
> Unless you have reasons for not wanting your mail to go through attbi/comcast
> .
> 
> > 
> 
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