Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 6:10:41 pm Dave O'Neill wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:52:10PM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > > I would suggest, unfortunately, that the OP move away from Sendmail. > > Though I haven't seen any significant security vulnerabilities from it > > lately, its configuration

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-14 Thread Barry McLarnon
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 19:51, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Rogers enforces SMTP authentication even when you connect using > your cable line at home. That wasn't the case 10 years ago when I > first registered as a subscriber. But I think this changed about > five years ago or so. True. > Also,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:52 -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > : Note that Rogers requires you to login before accepting any e-mail. Is > : your SMTP service configured to handle this? > > I know this is true if you're on the Internet at large and relaying through > them, but i

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Michael Walma
Jean-Francois Bilodeau wrote: > I run a mail server using a static IP, but for a while, GMail would > refuse any messages from my server, saying that it was a dynamic IP. > I've enabled SPF on my DNS server, and that seemed to fix the problem. > However, I'm curious to know how a server can know if

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Dave O'Neill
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:52:10PM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > I would suggest, unfortunately, that the OP move away from Sendmail. > Though I haven't seen any significant security vulnerabilities from it > lately, its configuration file is archaic and difficult to understand. > There are many oth

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Damian Gerow
Jean-Francois Bilodeau wrote: : I run a mail server using a static IP, but for a while, GMail would : refuse any messages from my server, saying that it was a dynamic IP. : I've enabled SPF on my DNS server, and that seemed to fix the problem. : However, I'm curious to know how a server can know

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Damian Gerow
Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: : Note that Rogers requires you to login before accepting any e-mail. Is : your SMTP service configured to handle this? I know this is true if you're on the Internet at large and relaying through them, but if the machine is connected to a Rogers cable line, doesn't it relay

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Robert Echlin
: 613-266-8311 From: Jean-Francois Bilodeau Cc: linux@lists.oclug.on.ca Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:46:48 PM Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail I run a mail server using a static IP, but for a while, GMail would refuse any messages from my s

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Jean-Francois Bilodeau
I run a mail server using a static IP, but for a while, GMail would refuse any messages from my server, saying that it was a dynamic IP. I've enabled SPF on my DNS server, and that seemed to fix the problem. However, I'm curious to know how a server can know if an IP is static or dynamic. How c

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 2:33:24 pm Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: So apache via Wordpress it the source of the email. Take note of the last line. server ~ # tail -f /var/log/apache2/error_log [Tue Jan 13 12:43:32 2009] [debug] ssl_scache_shmcb.c(316): index_num = 133 [Tue Jan 13 12:43:32 2009] [info

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 2:33:24 pm Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:52 -0500, Bruce Harding wrote: > > I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited > > amount of users be about to register to my blog. The problem I'm having > > is the verification emai

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 2:36:31 pm Damian Gerow wrote: > Do you have any other loglines to share?  What's the output of 'mailq' look > like? Tried mailq but it came up empty. -- Bruce Harding, Member: IEEE, SPIE, IACR Manager, Computer Books for Less 210 Bank St. Ottawa ON K2P 1W2 Phone: 613

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 2:36:31 pm Damian Gerow wrote: > However, I'm not convinced that's your problem.  It's a bit hard to say > with only the one log line, but it *looks* like it's trying to relay the Jan 13 14:40:01 server cron[10899]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/ru

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 2:52:05 pm Brett Delmage wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > > Also, I stopped using my server at home as a SMTP relay after I found > > out that many sites, even companies' mail servers, just drop messages > > relayed via a dynamic IP address, as the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:52 -0500, Bruce Harding wrote: > I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited amount > of users be about to register to my blog. The problem I'm having is the > verification email is not going through. Below is the error message > from /var/log

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Brett Delmage
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Also, I stopped using my server at home as a SMTP relay after I found > out that many sites, even companies' mail servers, just drop messages > relayed via a dynamic IP address, as the one you get from Rogers. I > guess they assume that is SPAM. Simi

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:52 -0500, Bruce Harding wrote: > I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited amount > of users be about to register to my blog. The problem I'm having is the > verification email is not going through. Below is the error message > from /var/log

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Sebastien Routier
Bruce have you had a look at http://www.newthink.net/2007/05/18/smarthost-authentication-with-sendmail/ I will be going through the same exercise in a couple of days. Let me know how far you get please. /Seb. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Bruce Harding < br...@computerbooksforless.com> wrote:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 1:33:45 pm Michael Walma wrote: > Bruce Harding wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 January 2009 12:52:26 pm Bruce Harding wrote: > >> I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited > >> amount of users be about to register to my blog. The problem I'm having

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 12:52:26 pm Bruce Harding wrote: > I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited > amount of users be about to register to my blog. The problem I'm having is > the verification email is not going through. Below is the error message > from /var/lo

[OCLUG-Tech] Rogers and Sendmail

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Harding
I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited amount of users be about to register to my blog. The problem I'm having is the verification email is not going through. Below is the error message from /var/log/messages. Jan 13 12:44:11 server sendmail[7951]: n0DHiAfd0079