sendmail setup

2007-02-06 Thread usleepless
List, Guys and Girls, although i know this is not a specific freebsd issue, i will ask the question nevertheless. normally, i sent my outgoing email through my isp ( relay.x.z ). this server seems to be down at the moment. so after working with bsd for years, i decided to dive into sendmail. i

Re: sendmail setup

2007-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 6, 2007, at 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] i ran tcpdump on the external interface, and the only thing that seems to happen is my machine contacting the other machines, but they never reply!: Typically that means your ISP is filtering outbound connections to port 25. If

Re: sendmail setup

2007-02-06 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, Guys and Girls, although i know this is not a specific freebsd issue, i will ask the question nevertheless. normally, i sent my outgoing email through my isp ( relay.x.z ). this server seems to be down at the moment. so

Re: sendmail setup

2007-02-06 Thread usleepless
Guys, ( unfortunatly there were no girls ), On 2/6/07, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, Guys and Girls, although i know this is not a specific freebsd issue, i will ask the question nevertheless. normally, i sent my

Re: sendmail setup

2007-02-06 Thread Bob
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:35:05 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a previous poster has surmised your port 25 may be blocked. That is not your only problem. Many many systems will (correctly) refuse port 25 SMTP sessions from end-user accounts, as those sessions are almost always 100% spam. The

Re: sendmail setup

2004-09-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-09-03 20:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Giorgos, That's a lot of info. Is all of that really necessary to allow just one machine to send mail thru the bsd box to the net? [snip] Probably not. The details posted in my message were the changes that I made on my workstation at work

sendmail setup

2004-09-03 Thread chip
At work I am trying to get a newly setup FreeBSD-5.2.1 box to work as a outbound mail only box, nothing else at will run on it. I have set up the relay-domains file, relay-local-hosts file and the access file. I then ran make. I may not have the file names exact, I'm at home now and the machine is

Re: sendmail setup

2004-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-09-03 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone please just explain what is needed to make it send mail out to the world from just one machine on the lan. It can't be as hard as it appears to be. The setup of my workstation at work to forward outgoing email to the mail gateway

Re: sendmail setup

2004-09-03 Thread chip
Thanks Giorgos, That's a lot of info. Is all of that really necessary to allow just one machine to send mail thru the bsd box to the net? I know the sendmail people tightened up the app alot. I suppose that's a good thing. Just seems like a lot of work to do something that seems to be simple.

Help nleeded with messy sendmail setup

2003-10-16 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, [I've read this several times before I posted, It's really confusing...even to me...sorry. Sendmail just kicks my butt every time I need to configure it.] I may have brought this up before, but I just can't seem to find an acceptable answer anywhere. I have a home network, with 2 FreeBSD

Problems with sendmail setup -- First time I've ever done this

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Parquette
I do not believe this is related to 5.1-CURRENT. I think I've done something wrong with my configuration. Please CC me on any replies. I subscribe to the digest form. TIA. I want to set up my house server to be an internal mail host. Internal mail host means it will collect all the Email from