Re: Still no sendmail - but a clue?

[William John Murray]

> A couple of questions:
> Are you connecting to your work authorised smtp server on port 25,

or are you using another port, such as 587?
> Are you sure that you're actually connecting to the server you think
>
> you're connecting to? Send yourself an email via this server and look

at the Received: headers. Are you actually going through the work
> authorised smtp server, or are you using the AOL proxy?

Yes! Paul, you are right. All my email was going via AOL, I just didn't
know. It explains a very strange problem I had thought I had with my
authorised email server once!
>

>*) My authorisation credentials are still failing if I try to use AOLs
        >server. Maybe this is because I don't really get there? Should I try oto
        >reference smtp-los02.proxy.aol.com or smtp.aol.com in authinfo do you
        >think?
> You shouldn't be using your "work" auth info when talking to the AOL
> server. If you have "AOL" auth info, you should be using that. You
> probably don't need any at all. What you *really* need is to be using a
> valid From: address, as I believe that's what the underlying problem is

1) A valid from address? Does that mean one that can be replied to,
     or one AOL can look up to get the IP the gave me?
  2) I see no effect of changing any of the masquerade settings. How can
I debug this?
  3) If I did get it working, I gather that root mail is NOT
masqueraded! But the whole point of this was to mail system messages to 
myself automatically. 
   Is there an easier way to do this? Sorry to be so slow...

Bill

Still no sendmail - but a clue?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 12.03.2005 schrieb William John Murray um 0:44:
> A valid from address? Does that mean one that can be replied to,
> or one AOL can look up to get the IP the gave me?

I don't know exactly what AOL uses a criteria to filter out spam and
other unwanted content. At least the domain part of your mail address
should be locatable, typically by an A or MX record in DNS. Not valid is
something like "base.murraydomain" (i.e. [e-mail]),
which seems to be your hostname setting.
See the URL and it's information I appended to this reply. You have
better chances - I suspect AOL's anti-spam measures are activated world
wide and not just for German users - to send your mail through AOL by
using the submission port 587. To do so set

define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `IPC $h 587')dnl

in the sendmail.mc, and in the mailertable something like

relay:[your.aol.smtp.host.com]
> I see no effect of changing any of the masquerade settings. How can
>
> I debug this?

What exactly do you want to debug/test? You can find some hints and also
test instructions (sendmail -bt) at

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Sendmail_masquerading.html
> If I did get it working, I gather that root mail is NOT
>
> masqueraded! But the whole point of this was to mail system messages to 
> myself automatically.

If changing to use the submission port 587 at AOL's side and bypassing
the enforced proxy, you can remove the exposed user setting in
sendmail.mc - as a final action.
> Is there an easier way to do this? Sorry to be so slow...
>            Bill

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewstick...

(sorry for the enormous URL length - as you see I try to make reading of
the article comfortable by pushing it through bablefish)

Alexander