Re: [Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-08-02 Thread Stephen Pelc via Hampshire
David said > You have to be careful about which ISP you use. Zen Internet have told > me that they will disconnect me if they see me using my own mail server > through their smarthost I have recently spent time talking to Zen about this. There's nothing in the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) that

Re: [Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-08-01 Thread Simon Reap via Hampshire
On 01/08/2018 11:35, David Anderson via Hampshire wrote: On 30/07/2018 21:20, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire wrote: I'm maintaining a server that configured using Sendmail to send outbound mail to the Internet via a Smart Host, eg. You have to be careful about which ISP you use. Zen Internet

Re: [Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-08-01 Thread David Anderson via Hampshire
On 31/07/18 20:59, Simon Reap via Hampshire wrote: > I've taken to installing ssmtp on my raspberry Pis to send emails, and > using my ISP's mail server as a forwarder (it's in my default Puppet > configuration for new nodes). > > One simple config file, and you're set! > > Simon > > On 30/07/2018

Re: [Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-07-31 Thread Steve Miller via Hampshire
I use Sendmail with an ISP relay, exactly as Imran describes.  It's worked fine for years though I'm not sending any bulk email. Nowadays Sendmail encourages the use of its m4 macros so in my seawasp.sendmail.mc I've got: define(`SMART_HOST', `relay.plus.net.') After running m4, this ends up

Re: [Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-07-31 Thread Simon Reap via Hampshire
I've taken to installing ssmtp on my raspberry Pis to send emails, and using my ISP's mail server as a forwarder (it's in my default Puppet configuration for new nodes). One simple config file, and you're set! Simon On 30/07/2018 21:20, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire wrote: I'm maintaining a

Re: [Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-07-31 Thread Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire
Thanks for the info Dan. I'll look into sendmail specific stuff now. On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 23:53, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 21:20, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire > wrote: >> >> I understand that sendmail can be configured to just use itself >> locally to send mail -

Re: [Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-07-30 Thread Daniel Llewellyn via Hampshire
On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 21:20, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > I understand that sendmail can be configured to just use itself > locally to send mail - happy days, but people have told me that it > might open up a can worms such as configuring SPF records etc.

[Hampshire] Configuring Sendmail to Internet

2018-07-30 Thread Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire
I'm maintaining a server that configured using Sendmail to send outbound mail to the Internet via a Smart Host, eg. # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DS The ISP says that because we are hosting our own mailserver, we cannot use their mailhost this way (eg. it's probably only for mail