Hello again...
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 23:18 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-01-10 19:38, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Go to /etc/mail. Edit freebsd.cf (look for SMART_HOST), point it at your ISP's mail server. Do "make stop; make install; make start".
FWIW, the file edited should be `freebsd.mc', not `freebsd.cf' otherwise a subsequent "make install" will overwrite the edited `freebsd.cf' file with a fresh copy generated from `freebsd.mc'.
Err, yes, that's right. (I knew which file I meant. :-)
Note that you can even copy freebsd.mc to hostname.mc, and the system will find it for you so you don't have to change the default template file. The Makefile explains this better than I did.
I did edit the file /etc/mail/freebsd.mc and changed the line containing the SMART_HOST to define(`SMART_HOST', `me.point.ne.jp') and # cd /etc/mail/ # make stop # make install # make start
Everything went well... I now have a r40e.point.ne.jp.mc and the all.. But, when I tried to send an Email to my yahoo.com account to test if it is working...
Here is what came back to my InBox: The original message was received at Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:34:41 GMT from localhost [127.0.0.1]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to vc.point.ne.jp.:
DATA
<<< 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable <<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
It seems that I was not allowed to relay my email so I tried the archives and then I tried reading the README file at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README and found something about:
Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client -----------------------------------------------------
I read a little and did what I understood: 1) created a /etc/mail/authinfo file with the following AuthInfo:point.ne.jp "U:myusername" "I:myusername" "P:password" AuthInfo:me.point.ne.jp "U:myusername" "I:myusername" "P:password"
Did a # cd /etc/mail/
# make stop
# make install
# make start
No problems but still I can not send Emails using sendmail...
Any hints...Or am I going the wrong direction here and probably messed my configuration badly now...?
No -- what you've done so far is fine. However there are several possible ways for your ISP to control access to their mail server and you'll need to talk to them to find out exactly what you should do.
How did you manage to send the e-mail I'm replying to? I see from your message headers you're using the Evolution mail client, so presumably you've configured it to speak SMTP directly to the ISPs mail servers? What settings did you have to put into Evolution to make it work? It should be possible to deduce from that how to configure sendmail to work similarly, although it may take someone more familiar with Evolution than I am to join up all the dots.
Cheers,
Matthew
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