Unable to get SendMail to work.

Question

I set up my mx record to be “mail” with priority one. I am able to successfully ping mail@my-domain.com

I’ve followed this documentation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sendmail

I then:

$ sendmail -vt < test-message.txt

The output looks like this (please note that I changed some of the stuff to hide my droplet name, domain name, and username. I’ve cap-locked those parts to make it obvious.

WARNING: local host name (DROPLET) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? TEST@EMAIL.COM… Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay… 220 MY-DOMAIN.COM ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.7/8.14.7; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 06:00:31 GMT

EHLO camille 250-MY-DOMAIN.COM Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-EXPN 250-VERB 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP VERB 250 2.0.0 Verbose mode MAIL From:MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET SIZE=111 050 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET… Transient parse error – message queued for future delivery 553 5.1.8 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET… Domain of sender address MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET does not exist …/dead.letter… Saved message in …/dead.letter Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] QUIT 221 2.0.0 MY-DOMAIN.COM closing connection

Kamal Nasser · Answer

Seems like it’s working then :]

dbtoomey · Answer

I set up the MX record and went through setting up sendmail again, but still no dice.

I still get the same error as here:
Domain of sender address MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET does not exist

I would list all the sites and blogs I looked into for answers, but nothing seems to be working.

dbtoomey · Answer

WARNING: local host name (MY-DROPLET) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I?
TEST@EMAIL .COM… Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay…
220 MY-DOMAIN.COM ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.7/8.14.7; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 05:01:15 GMT
>>> EHLO MY-DROPLET
250-MY-DOMAIN.COM Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> VERB
250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
>>> MAIL From:MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET SIZE=74
553 5.1.8 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET … Domain of sender address MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET does not exist
MY-LOGIN… Using cached ESMTP connection to [127.0.0.1] via relay…
>>> RSET
250 2.0.0 Reset state
>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=1098
250 2.1.0 <>… Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET … Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with “.” on a line by itself
>>> .
050 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET … Connecting to local…
050 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET … Sent
250 2.0.0 rBT51FM3009927 Message accepted for delivery
MY-LOGIN… Sent (rBT51FM3009927 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 MY-DOMAIN.COM closing connection

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