From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 22:56:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DE516A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:56:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq1.home.nl (smtpq1.home.nl [213.51.128.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C25243D2F for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:56:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.135] (port=59899 helo=smtp4.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DG39b-0000yT-Od for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:56:15 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:52776 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp4.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DG39Y-0003vG-Qd for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:56:12 +0200 From: Danny Pansters Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:56:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com> <4247C52B.2060509@xbsd.org> <20050328172502.1e0ed2b5.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> In-Reply-To: <20050328172502.1e0ed2b5.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200503290056.06112.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link -- Thanks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Danny Pansters List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:56:17 -0000 On Monday 28 March 2005 17:25, you wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:49:47 +0200 > > Florent Thoumie wrote: > > Danny Pansters a =E9crit : > > > I already set my isp's smtp as smart relay in freensd.mc and did make, > > > but now my FQDN hostname is not considered cosher (helo)... its > > > desktop.homenet, a local name. > > > > > > How do I solve this? > > > > > > (also...contrast this inconvenience with every non-subscribed spammer > > > being able to spam us if she has a colo set up properly...) > > > > You might want to use ssmtp. Since you're using your ISP's smtp > > server to send mail, there should be no problem if you don't > > have a FQDN hostname. > > A very simple and complicated HOWTO :) > http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/~clement/FreeBSD/send-pr+ssmtp.txt > > clem This is an excellent solution, much better than what I did before. I was=20 actually editing the sendmail .cf file to change my FQDN and address. Messy. I can simply use my regular email address @ricin.com (at a hosting provider= )=20 too now. Both send-pr and porttools need a slight modification to also take= =20 the preferred email adress from .ssmtprc. To have the right and be=20 also recognised as maintainer by porttools something like this will do:=20 =2D-- cmd_submit.orig Tue Mar 29 00:10:35 2005 +++ cmd_submit Tue Mar 29 00:36:17 2005 @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ COMMITTER=3D"no" RUN_PORTLINT=3D"yes" +# Set EMAIL to what's in ~/.ssmtprc if it exists +if [ -f ${HOME}/.ssmtprc ]; then + EMAIL=3D"`cat ${HOME}/.ssmtprc`" +fi + # Parse command line arguments ARGS=3D`/usr/bin/getopt hm:d:s:p:cL $*` if [ $? !=3D 0 ] Thanks a lot, sane solution with little effort, just the way I like it :) Dan