[SLUG] Evolution and sending mail
Hi all, Trying to set up my mail using evolution (debian unstable) - various reasons including work shifting to groupwise, and nice palm syncing for the address book. I read mail from an imap server and have my ISP's smtp server set as the outgoing server. When I send mail, however, I get blocked by the MAPS(?) service "refused by blackhole site yada yada yada". Have contacted the support people there who point out that this is because my mail appears to come from a dynamic IP address, hence the blocking. Conclusion - it must be a setup problem on my box. I can send mail from mutt, and have set up exim (using dpkg-reconfigure exim) as option 2 (the dialup system) with the ISPs server as the outgoing mail machine. When I set up evolution at work, using the uni's outgoing mail server, I have no problem. Any ideas? Something stupid and simple I've missed I'm positive. Denis Crowdy -- Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia, ph: +61 (0)2 9850 6787, fax: 9850 6593 http://www.ccms.mq.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Evolution and sending mail
I could be understanding this incorrectly. but you're on the university network presently and are trying to send mail out through the mail server of your isp? if this is the case the isp will have relaying turned of on their mailservers effectively stopping anyone from outside of their network sending mail via their mail servers (unless they have have smtp authentication happening for instance). which is what is preventing you from sending mail. of course i could have completely misunderstood the situation you're trying to describe. regards, brett On Friday 19 November 2004 10:21, Denis Crowdy wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to set up my mail using evolution (debian unstable) - various > reasons including work shifting to groupwise, and nice palm syncing for > the address book. > > I read mail from an imap server and have my ISP's smtp server set as the > outgoing server. When I send mail, however, I get blocked by the > MAPS(?) service "refused by blackhole site yada yada yada". Have > contacted the support people there who point out that this is because my > mail appears to come from a dynamic IP address, hence the blocking. > Conclusion - it must be a setup problem on my box. > > I can send mail from mutt, and have set up exim (using dpkg-reconfigure > exim) as option 2 (the dialup system) with the ISPs server as the > outgoing mail machine. > > When I set up evolution at work, using the uni's outgoing mail server, I > have no problem. > > Any ideas? Something stupid and simple I've missed I'm positive. > > Denis Crowdy > > -- > Department of Contemporary Music Studies > Macquarie University > NSW 2109 Australia, ph: +61 (0)2 9850 6787, fax: 9850 6593 > http://www.ccms.mq.edu.au -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Evolution and sending mail
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:21 +1100, Denis Crowdy wrote: > > I read mail from an imap server and have my ISP's smtp server set as the > outgoing server. When I send mail, however, I get blocked by the > MAPS(?) service "refused by blackhole site yada yada yada". Have > contacted the support people there who point out that this is because my > mail appears to come from a dynamic IP address, hence the blocking. > Conclusion - it must be a setup problem on my box. Fixed - wiped all mail accounts, started again, wiped .evolution, copied old .evolution back, set up a new account, had to move mail from the outbox to drafts and back again before it would work. Odd, but solved. Denis > -- > Department of Contemporary Music Studies > Macquarie University > NSW 2109 Australia, ph: +61 (0)2 9850 6787, fax: 9850 6593 > http://www.ccms.mq.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
