On 2/26/13 8:17 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:17 PM, CS DBA <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi All;
>>
>> I've installed mediawiki for our company on a Scientific Linux 6.x server.
>> Mediawiki does not
>> allow users I create to login and go to a settings page to change their
>> password.
>>
>> The only way users can change passwords is to click the lost password link
>> and have Mediawiki
>> email them a new password.
>> However, email does not work. I downloaded sendmail but still no luck.
>> I also tried to send a simple email from the command line via sendmail,
>> still no luck
> Downloading isn't enough, you actually ahve to start it. But if you're
> using SL 6.3, I strongly suspect that you already had Postfix
> installed and running, and you should rip sendmail right back out and
> use Postfix (wich is the default now for our favorite upstream
> vendor).
>
> Sendmail is an MTA, a Mail Transfer Agent. If the email got to it, it
> should show up in /var/log/maillog.
>
>> I'm pretty well versed in basic Linux admin tasks but when it comes to
>> sendmail, mailx, etc
>> I'm a complete noobie.
> mailx is an old, somewhat simpler command line client for email. If
> that's not working, something is wrong. Are you sure you don't have a
> network firewall in place somewhere that is blocking email from any
> but designated, active SMTP servers, and machines like yours would be
> forced to pass their mail first to a "smarthost"? I've done that kind
> of blocking myself, *precisely* to keep every student and staff and
> their granny from running public and unmaintained wikis and mailing
> lists that would be coming from sites inside our network but had
> nothing to do with the company.
>
>> Any help on setting up the mail (and getting it to play nice with mediawiki)
>> would be much appreciated
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> /Kevin
> See above. Check /var/spool/mailllog, and see what "/usr/lib/sendmail
> -bp" says about any outstanding email messages stuck in the queue.
No luck.
Here's where I'm at:
1) thinking I needed sendmail I installed sendmail & sendmail-cf
based on feedback from the list I've since removed them both
2) SELINUX is disables, also the default IPTABLES firewall is disabled
We do have a firtewall for the office (Untangle) but it is not
blocking any outgoing traffic
3) There is no maillog at /var/spool
4) /usr/lib/sendmail -bp says this:
Note: I changed my work email to [log in to unmask] for security
# /usr/lib/sendmail -bp
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
0D8FD8C04DE 737 Tue Feb 26 15:48:12
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c01::1a]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
4AEE78C04C2 657 Tue Feb 26 15:50:19
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c03::1a]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
467548C046A 662 Tue Feb 26 18:37:43
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c01::1b]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
6C85B8C04DC 657 Tue Feb 26 15:45:28
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c01::1b]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
1CE388C0452 662 Tue Feb 26 18:33:58
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c01::1b]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
1139F8C04DF 657 Tue Feb 26 15:53:20
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c03::1b]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
ED7278C04CF 472 Sat Feb 23 12:22:21
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c01::1b]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
877348C0475 394 Wed Feb 27 10:40:40 [log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c03::1a]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
784ED8C04CA 656 Tue Feb 26 15:39:08
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c01::1a]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
56BB88C04C8 656 Tue Feb 26 15:38:12
[log in to unmask]
(connect to alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c01::1a]:25: Network
is unreachable)
[log in to unmask]
-- 11 Kbytes in 10 Requests.
5) If I try and send an email like this:
# sendmail -v [log in to unmask] < t
where t has this (including a trailing blank line):
# cat t
Hello, this is a test
Subject: test mail
first line of my message
then I get this in the localhost mail for root
# mailx
Heirloom Mail version 12.4 7/29/08. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/root": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 Mail Delivery System Wed Feb 27 10:41 60/2235 "Mail Delivery
Status "
&
Message 1:
From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Feb 27 10:41:41 2013
Return-Path: <>
X-Original-To: [log in to unmask]
Delivered-To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:41:41 -0700 (MST)
From: [log in to unmask] (Mail Delivery System)
Subject: Mail Delivery Status Report
To: [log in to unmask]
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="877348C0475.1361986901/this_server.my_domain.com"
Status: R
Part 1:
Content-Description: Notification
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
This is the mail system at host this_server.my_domain.com.
Enclosed is the mail delivery report that you requested.
The mail system
<[log in to unmask]>: connect to
alt2.aspmx.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400c:c03::1a]:25: Network is
unreachable
Part 2:
Content-Description: Delivery report
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Part 3:
Content-Description: Message Headers
Content-Type: text/rfc822-headers
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: by this_server.my_domain.com (Postfix, from userid 0)
id 877348C0475; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:40:40 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:40:40 -0700 (MST)
From: [log in to unmask] (root)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
&
At EOF
6) I can however ping alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
# ping alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
PING alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (173.194.75.27) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ve-in-f27.1e100.net (173.194.75.27): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48
time=99.3 ms
64 bytes from ve-in-f27.1e100.net (173.194.75.27): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48
time=99.7 ms
64 bytes from ve-in-f27.1e100.net (173.194.75.27): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48
time=99.8 ms
64 bytes from ve-in-f27.1e100.net (173.194.75.27): icmp_seq=4 ttl=48
time=99.1 ms
64 bytes from ve-in-f27.1e100.net (173.194.75.27): icmp_seq=5 ttl=48
time=99.6 ms
7) Help?
Not sure if I've missed a config item somewhere, is there some file I
need to setup with SMTP info?
Thanks in advance
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