From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 25 08:09:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10035 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10006 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA14194 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:08:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id LAA23608 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:08:18 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id LAA26545 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:08:18 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:08:18 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: freebsd-questions Subject: Unable to send mail. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ... Domain does not) freebsd-test@freebsd.org QAA07201 0 Sat Aug 22 16:35 (Deferred) RAA09563 0 Sat Aug 22 17:12 (Deferred) RAA13099 0 Sat Aug 22 17:23 (Deferred) 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? +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message