I had this error a while back. Make sure the mailer is really there. I was sure mine was, and accidentally found it had somehow disappeared???? > > I'm trying to set up a central sendmail server for my home network. To > a first approximation, what I want is just a place that will catch all > the mail for 'root' and for crontab users, from two or three > boxen, so that I only have to sit down at one box to get updates on the > situation. > > I can't seem to find any FM to R for this task --- most seem to be > aimed at either (a) sendmail for a single box with envelope > masquerading or (b) sendmail for a box exposed to the internet doing > general email service. > > I'm stumbling along, but keep getting the following errors when > subsidiary boxen send email to the mail server: > > > Mar 29 09:13:13 cthulhu sendmail[20590]: NOQUEUE: nyarlathotep > [192.168.0.14] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to > MTA > > the subsidiary box, nyarlathotep, is sending mail through mailx, the > lightweight mailer that you get by default in Mandrake (both boxen are > Mandrake 8.1). Does anybody know if this mailer does something > deviant with smtp? Or is there perhaps some handshaking that's > blocked by tcpwrappers on nyarlathotep? Or, is this a problem because > I don't have DNS on my subnet, and DNS lookup doesn't work to > authenticate nyarlathotep? I'm having a hard time even figuring out > how to troubleshoot this and, as I said, my googling doesn't seem to > help. > > Thanks, > R > > P.S. I have considered changing to qmail or postfix, but that seems > like a big mess of additional cost, when the sendmail solution almost > works. > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Raymond Norton Little Crow Telemedia Network 320-234-0270