[hylafax-users] sendmail script help and permissions

[Scott Hallenbeck <7h33y3@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not familiar with that setup.  You may want to try the following in order to setup HylaFAX's faxmail with sendmail:

- Install the sendmail cf package

yum -y install sendmail-cf

- Comment out the  "Port=smtp,Addr=127" line in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

- Add the following settings to the end of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl

define(`FAX_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/faxmail')dnl

define(`FAX_MAILER_ARGS',`faxmail -NT $u@$h $f')dnl

MAILER(`fax')dnl

- On the shell, run the following:

FAXDOMAIN=fax.mycompany.com

echo $FAXDOMAIN >> /etc/mail/local-host-names

echo -e "@${FAXDOMAIN}\tfax@%1.fax" >> /etc/mail/virtusertable

make -C /etc/mail

/sbin/service sendmail restart

cat > /etc/hylafax/faxmail.conf << EOF

AutoCoverPage: false

TextFont: Verdana

TextPointSize: 12pt

Headers: Message-id Date Subject From

MailUser: faxmail

EOF

That should get you up and running.  This configuration allows you to send faxes to FAXNUMBER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.  If there are any problems, check /var/log/maillog for details.

It's important that the DNS for "fax.mycompany.com" resolves to the fax server, but the fax server's local hostname must not be "fax."  If it is, all local email (ie. to root or another user) will be treated by Sendmail as email destined for HylaFAX's faxmail.  To avoid this, simply make sure that the server's hostname is something other than "fax."

Dave

Dave,
    Thanks again for your advice.  And it seems this SHOULD be working correctly, however when the mail hits the server I recieve this in the maillog:

Mar  4 13:26:56 hylafax sendmail[3757]: o24IQtlH003755: to=<(faxnumber)@fax.mydomain.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=fax, pri=237064, relay=18776564330, dsn=5.3.4, stat=Service unavailable
Mar  4 13:26:56 hylafax sendmail[3757]: o24IQtlH003755: o24IQulH003757: DSN: Service unavailable

I am bouncing mail off our primary mail server into this server using qmail smtproutes.  But the fax server currently resides behind a firewall.  So I opened port 25 to the fax server and put in DNS fax.mydomain.com as the firewall static IP so mail gets delivered to it, and it does.  To make the fax server think IT is fax.mydomain.com I added it to the host file with the private IP of the fax server, which seems to work,   I am not certain however that this configuration is whats causing the problem, however I don't see how it could since locally it believes it is fax.mydomain.com regardless of the DNS.

Any other suggestions?

Scott