Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:08:18 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Unable to send mail. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980825105423.25967A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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Hi!
I have a big problem here...
I can't send mail through my ppp connection the way I used to. I must now
either telnet to my isp on port 25, or disconnect, and log on in terminal
mode.
Here's the situation:
I have an IRIX account at my university. There, I installed slirp, which
emulates a ppp connection, and slirp.popper, which emulates a POP3.
The server I'm on is derby.jsp.umontreal.ca. To fetch my mail, I use the
10.0.2.1 address, cause it's the popper address. The server I used to send
my mail was epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca .
So in Pine, I have smtpserver= epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca .
I have set my own domain name (outpost.nada.org), even if it has no IP
address equivalence in any DNS.
Recently (Aug 22), I stopped receiving replies from mail I was sending. I
also remarked that on that precise day the file /etc/host.conf was
modified (probably by me!) to look like this:
------------------------------
# $Id: host.conf,v 1.2 1993/11/07 01:02:57 wollman Exp $
# Default is to use the nameserver first
bind
# If that doesn't work, then try the /etc/hosts file
host
# If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line
#nis
-------------------------------
I tried reversing bind and host, nothing will do. So I tried
telnet epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca 25
, to send mail directly. And it worked!
this is resolv.conf:
-------------------------------
beaupran@outpost [11:02am] /usr/src# more /etc/resolv.conf
domain outpost.nada.org
nameserver 132.204.2.103
nameserver 132.204.2.102
--------------------------------
132.204.2.103 is the derby DNS and the other is the epsom DNS.
This is hosts:
------------------------------
127.0.0.1 outpost.nada.org localhost nada
10.0.0.1 outpost.nada.org nada
-------------------------------
beaupran@outpost [11:05am] /usr/src# sendmail -bp
Mail Queue (12 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient------------
KAA09430 5 Tue Aug 25 10:20 beaupran
(Deferred: 451 <beaupran@outpost.nada.org>... Domain does
not)
freebsd-test@freebsd.org
QAA07201 0 Sat Aug 22 16:35 <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca>
(Deferred)
<freebsd-questions@Freebsd.ORG>
RAA09563 0 Sat Aug 22 17:12 <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca>
(Deferred)
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
RAA13099 0 Sat Aug 22 17:23 <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca>
(Deferred)
<freebsd-questions@Freebsd.ORG>
KAA09490 (no control file)
KAA09480 (no control file)
------------------------------------------
Usually, I was sending mail with pine, using the smtp setting, and there
were no problem!
Now there is. What the heck?
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