Re: Simple sendmail configuration
Hi, On 12/20/14 21:48, Vijay Sankar wrote: I would like to try to help -- but not sure that I have understood your problem correctly, so here is a guess. To clarify: Out of the box OpenBSD5.6 uses /usr/share/sendmail/cf/openbsd-localhost.mc as the config source for its mail system. This file defines LOCALHOST_ONLY and includes openbsd-proto.mc. So i am advised to compile a modified version of openbsd-proto.mc, right? There, i can define SMART_HOST which relays all outgoing mail to a certain server. But is sendmail.cf not used for all local users? So what, if different users need different relays? Do you have a DNS entry that shows your OpenBSD IP as the valid MX record for your domain? If not, probably the remote mail server is rejecting email from your server. Or may be of the remote email server is authoritative for your domain then it is not set up to accept email relayed through your server. I am thinking that if there are no DNS issues, then you can use the default sendmail.cf, edit mailertable to send everything for your domain.com to the remote mail server and it should work. I do not have a static IP but am dialing up. My mother and i each have an account at a certain mail server, one for me and a different one for my mother -- servers which store mail meant for and send it to us, when connect via IMAP or POP3. We also want to relay outgoing mail thru those mail servers. My problem is, that I am trying to archieve that using $mail, not Thunderbird. But wait: I used to have four instances of smtpd running on the computer, but after i installed Thunderbird i now have seven. When i now try $mail -s test grasso...@versanet.de, i can send a message. But delivery fails because the sender is 1000@localhost, while it should be grasso...@versanet.de Cut short, my problem: Noone of OpenBSD helped the possibility, that someone on dial-up uses $mail. Uli
Re: Simple sendmail configuration
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 09:59:27PM +0100, Ulrich Grassberger wrote: Hi, On 12/20/14 21:48, Vijay Sankar wrote: I would like to try to help -- but not sure that I have understood your problem correctly, so here is a guess. To clarify: Out of the box OpenBSD5.6 uses /usr/share/sendmail/cf/openbsd-localhost.mc as the config source for its mail system. This file defines LOCALHOST_ONLY and includes openbsd-proto.mc. So i am advised to compile a modified version of openbsd-proto.mc, right? Except that, no, it doesn't. OpenBSD 5.6 uses smtpd(8) as the default MTA and not sendmail. The only configuration file, save for aliases, is /etc/mail/smtpd.conf. Cut short, my problem: Noone of OpenBSD helped the possibility, that someone on dial-up uses $mail. What? Please read smtpd.conf(5). -Bryan.
Simple sendmail configuration
Hello, i installed OpenBSD5.6 on a laptop, because Windows is too insecure and commercial, and Linux is too radical. I am trying to use $mail for receiving and sending e-mails over the remote e-mail account at my internet service provider. With the default sendmail configuration, i can mail only locally. So i rewrote the config with masquerading but could not figure out how to link local users to their remote mail accounts. And i made a mistake, for now local mailing is also broken. I figure, that there are many people like me trying to hack a bit but unwilling to get a master degree in Unix administration or to ask a Linux nerd. So I would love to see a sample sendmail config for the stuff that is configured that easily in Thunderbird. Cheers, Uli Grassberger
Re: Simple sendmail configuration
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 05:23:06PM +0100, grasso...@versanet.de wrote: Hello, i installed OpenBSD5.6 on a laptop, because Windows is too insecure and commercial, and Linux is too radical. I am trying to use $mail for receiving and sending e-mails over the remote e-mail account at my internet service provider. With the default sendmail configuration, i can mail only locally. So i rewrote the config with masquerading but could not figure out how to link local users to their remote mail accounts. And i made a mistake, for now local mailing is also broken. I figure, that there are many people like me trying to hack a bit but unwilling to get a master degree in Unix administration or to ask a Linux nerd. So I would love to see a sample sendmail config for the stuff that is configured that easily in Thunderbird. Cheers, Uli Grassberger OpenSMTPD is the new default MTA in 5.6, perhaps you would find that easier to setup.. sendmail is moving to the ports tree for 5.7. man 8 smtpd man 8 smtpctl man 5 smtpd.conf -Bryan.
Re: Simple sendmail configuration
Quoting grasso...@versanet.de grasso...@versanet.de: Hello, i installed OpenBSD5.6 on a laptop, because Windows is too insecure and commercial, and Linux is too radical. I am trying to use $mail for receiving and sending e-mails over the remote e-mail account at my internet service provider. With the default sendmail configuration, i can mail only locally. So i rewrote the config with masquerading but could not figure out how to link local users to their remote mail accounts. And i made a mistake, for now local mailing is also broken. I figure, that there are many people like me trying to hack a bit but unwilling to get a master degree in Unix administration or to ask a Linux nerd. So I would love to see a sample sendmail config for the stuff that is configured that easily in Thunderbird. Cheers, Uli Grassberger Hi, I would like to try to help -- but not sure that I have understood your problem correctly, so here is a guess. Do you have a DNS entry that shows your OpenBSD IP as the valid MX record for your domain? If not, probably the remote mail server is rejecting email from your server. Or may be of the remote email server is authoritative for your domain then it is not set up to accept email relayed through your server. I am thinking that if there are no DNS issues, then you can use the default sendmail.cf, edit mailertable to send everything for your domain.com to the remote mail server and it should work. Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. ForeTell Technologies Limited vsan...@foretell.ca - This message was sent using ForeTell-POST 4.9
