sendmail can't send to hotmail address

[Phil Buckley]

Thanks Anthony,

You are right! I started a sendmail test-debug then went to eat lunch,
when I came back...

<snip>
map_lookup(host, hotmail.com, %0=hotmail.com) => hotmail.com. (0)
map_lookup(mailertable, hotmail.com, %0=hotmail.com) => NOT FOUND (0)
map_lookup(mailertable, .com, %0=.com, %1=hotmail, %2=hotmail) => NOT
FOUND (0)
map_lookup(mailertable, ., %0=., %1=hotmail.com) => NOT FOUND (0)
phil at mydomain.com... deliverable: mailer esmtp, host hotmail.com., user
guy_nearby at hotmail.com

So, is there anyway to avoid the hang??? It seems that it can't find
hotmail.com.

Phil

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On 7/23/2002 at 12:44 PM Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

>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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