Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:48:33 +0100 From: Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mutt & sendmail configuration problems Message-ID: <20050320164833.GA2767@oliverfuchs.onlinehome.de> In-Reply-To: <951e41953ef5.953ef5951e41@liu.se> References: <951e41953ef5.953ef5951e41@liu.se>
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > I'm trying to set up sendmail to route outgoing mail to an external SMTP server. I need this for Mutt, which doesn't have its own means of transfering mail and relies on whatever MTA the system provides. I found out about sendmail's SMARTHOST capability and added this line to my <host>.mc configuration file (built by 'cd /etc/mail && make && make install'): > > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.liu.se') Hi, the FEATURE has to be: define(`SMART_HOST', `[smtp.liu.se]')dnl Optional you can use the authinfo-file feature: FEATURE(`authinfo')dnl If so create a file /etc/mail/authinfo wiht something like this: AuthInfo:smtp.liu.se "U:yourusername" "P:yourpassword" Go to /etc/mail and run as root: makemap hash authinfo < authinfo chmod 600 authinfo authinfo.db Oliver > > I then installed the changes with 'make && make install && make restart'. Now, whenever I try to send mail from Mutt, I get back the following failure notice: > > > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:21 +0100 (CET) > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> > To: <ulf@obygden> > Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details > Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > > [-- Bilaga #1 --] > [-- Typ: text/plain, Kodning: 7bit, Storlek: 0,5K --] > > The original message was received at Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:20 +0100 (CET) > from localhost [127.0.0.1] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <ulfma629@student.liu.se> > (reason: 504 <ulf@obygden>: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to smtp.liu.se.: > >>> DATA > <<< 504 <ulf@obygden>: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > <<< 554 Error: no valid recipients > > [-- Bilaga #2 --] > [-- Typ: message/delivery-status, Kodning: 7bit, Storlek: 0,4K --] > > Reporting-MTA: dns; obygden > Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost > Arrival-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:20 +0100 (CET) > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; ulfma629@student.liu.se > Action: failed > Status: 5.5.4 > Remote-MTA: DNS; smtp.liu.se > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 504 <ulf@obygden>: Sender address rejected: need > +fully-qualified address > Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:21 +0100 (CET) > > [-- Bilaga #3 --] > [-- Typ: message/rfc822, Kodning: 7bit, Storlek: 0,7K --] > > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:33:20 +0100 > From: Ulf Magnusson <ulfma629@student.liu.se> > To: ulfma629@student.liu.se > Subject: test > User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i > > test > > > any ideas? Please be aware that I'm totally new to sendmail when replying :) -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit
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