From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 11:15:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04885 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer11.u.washington.edu (durang@homer11.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04879 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by homer11.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.08/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA64476; Thu, 22 Aug 96 11:15:46 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:15:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh To: Annelise Anderson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: me again. mail question In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Huge Omission] > > I've tried using sendmail on my own machine with about 60% success. Some > > messages just never make it to the mailhosts, and they back up the > > mailqueue. Using Pine locally to transport mail to the mailhost is also > > only partially successful. Now I'm telneting an ISP server and using pine > > remotely. This is the only guarantee I can actually send this message. > > > > Ken > > It just seems that something is not set up properly. If pine is > queuing your mail, you must have the mail server in the pine configuration > file set to localhost. Yes. > This means you're using sendmail on your own > machine as the mail transport agent, not the smtp at the isp. Yes. Here's a question for ya: does sendmail see the mail through to the addressee, or does it merely pass it to the SMTP mailhost? > When > you use sendmail -q to send the queued mail, it will (I think) send it > to the default router that's set up when you log in to the isp. That's > why it's important to know what ip address the isp is using for itself, > which should be the default route. This may be dynamically assigned. Yes. I think it is dynamically assigned. It is different every time I dial in to the ISP. A setup I would like to use is one where PINE sends mail to the SMTP mailhost at the ISP. I know how to set that up, but on occasion pine will reach the "sending mail | 100%" point and then lock up. After a long period of time Pine reports that the SMTP connection is lost. I can still ping the SMTP server at this point, so I don't know why the connection is being lost. Perhaps something is timing out? At any rate, I couldn't resolve this problem so I moved on to using sendmail. After that was problematic, I tried POP. I haven't put alot of effort into POP yet, and in the mean time I'm telneting. It's slow, but at least it works. Ken