By dbtoomey
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
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I set up the MX record and went through setting up sendmail again, but still no dice. <br> <br>I still get the same error as here: <br>Domain of sender address MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET does not exist <br> <br>I would list all the sites and blogs I looked into for answers, but nothing seems to be working.
WARNING: local host name (MY-DROPLET) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? <br>TEST@EMAIL.COM… Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay… <br>220 MY-DOMAIN.COM ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.7/8.14.7; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 05:01:15 GMT <br>>>> EHLO MY-DROPLET <br>250-MY-DOMAIN.COM Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you <br>250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES <br>250-PIPELINING <br>250-EXPN <br>250-VERB <br>250-8BITMIME <br>250-SIZE <br>250-DSN <br>250-ETRN <br>250-DELIVERBY <br>250 HELP <br>>>> VERB <br>250 2.0.0 Verbose mode <br>>>> MAIL From:MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET SIZE=74 <br>553 5.1.8 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET… Domain of sender address MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET does not exist <br>MY-LOGIN… Using cached ESMTP connection to [127.0.0.1] via relay… <br>>>> RSET <br>250 2.0.0 Reset state <br>>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=1098 <br>250 2.1.0 <>… Sender ok <br>>>> RCPT To:MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET <br>>>> DATA <br>250 2.1.5 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET… Recipient ok <br>354 Enter mail, end with “.” on a line by itself <br>>>> . <br>050 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET… Connecting to local… <br>050 MY-LOGIN@MY-DROPLET… Sent <br>250 2.0.0 rBT51FM3009927 Message accepted for delivery <br>MY-LOGIN… Sent (rBT51FM3009927 Message accepted for delivery) <br>Closing connection to [127.0.0.1] <br>>>> QUIT <br>221 2.0.0 MY-DOMAIN.COM closing connection
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