On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [ I have changed the subject to get the attention of other bytemark > users who might be able to help us with this problem: Richard has an > account on a bytemark VM and he wants to send emails via the their > smarthost. At the moment we are trying to configure msmtp properly on > the VM for this task; suggestions for a better tool for this job are > welcome. The goal is to have a sendmail-equivalent command working on > the VM so that it can be used with mutt, executed remotely via ssh or > by using port forwarding. ]
Smart move -- thanks Florian. > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: >> How do I get to see the >> envelope msmtp is trying to send? > > Adding "logfile ~/.msmtp.log" to .msmtprc should give you more > information. Here is the log that resulted: Aug 27 15:18:11 host=smtp.bytemark.co.uk tls=off auth=off [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] errormsg='the server does not support DSN' exitcode=EX_UNAVAILABLE > These first two requirements are very basic; essentially > they are just saying that sender and recipient addresses cannot be > completely bogus. (The "from" line in the config file should take care > of MAIL_FROM and mutt should specify the recipient's email address as > the argument when it invokes msmtp.) Ah, do I need to add parameters to the command in .muttrc? at present it says set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" set sendmail_wait=0 [...] > dig MX the-place.net That looks okay, points to the right IP. [...] > > It might be time to contact bytemark's technical support. You are probably right. I'll give them a call. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
