On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:43 AM Paul M Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > > Folks: > > Here's a shot in the dark. I've looked up and down the internet, and can't > find a solution. > > I have a mini PC which just serves up videos. Daily it backs up to an > attached drive. This happens with a script in /etc/cron.daily, which > typically emails results to root. In my case it's aliased to me. I have > OpenSMTPD installed with this config: > > --- > > # $OpenBSD: smtpd.conf,v 1.10 2018/05/24 11:40:17 gilles Exp $ > > # This is the smtpd server system-wide configuration file. > # See smtpd.conf(5) for more information. > > table aliases file:/etc/aliases > table secrets file:/etc/secrets > > listen on localhost > > action "relay" relay host smtp+notls://pa...@yosemite.mars.lan:25 auth > <secrets> > > match from local for any action "relay" > > --- > > Note: yosemite is my desktop machine; that where I want the mail to be > sent. "paulf" is a tag in the secrets file. Note that this connection > between the mini PC (buckaroo) and yosemite should be a plain text > connection, very simple. My username and password are in the secrets file. > > When I attempt to send a test message to check this all works (via swaks or > mail), I get an error message in the /var/log/mail.log file which says: > > "warn: Failed to parse smarthost smtp+notls://pa...@yosemite.mars.lan:25" > > Note that the "protocol" doesn't matter. I can use "smtp" alone as the > protocol, and it still won't parse. And yes, yosemite.mars.lan is in my > local hosts file.
On the video server, run nslookup and see if it can resolve yosemite.mars.lan. Looking at the string smtp+notls://pa...@yosemite.mars.lan:25, it looks more like a url than a hostname. Maybe that is confusing your mail agent. Also, I think you should be using *.home.arpa, and not *.lan. home.arpa is reserved for private use by ICANN and the IETF. I suspect *.lan is not reserved for private use. Jeff
