Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:56:48 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl) provider link Message-ID: <20050327225648.5ba62806.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com> References: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com>
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:00:15 +0200 Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just migrated all my stuff to a new machine and having troubles sending any > mail to the freebsd lists and inparticular with send-pr. I have a cable modem > connected to my gateway which connects to a gbit switch through which the > other pcs connect. The cable provider uses dhcp. I get my IP ok and my > hostname (sent through dhclient also, otherwise logging on doesn't work) is > danny@cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl. I have set up pf to do nat and filtering. > It's not a firewall problem. > > I'm having problems getting sendmail (from my desktp -- a client behind the > gateway) to be eligible to send mail to the freebsd servers, particularly > send-pr. > > 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? I'll leave the sendmail answers to those who really understand it. As an alternative, sendmail configurations could be avoided by using ports/sysutils/gtk-send-pr especially if this is your only need for sendmail. Gtk-send-pr will deliver mail to any SMTP server. Just a thought.. Randy --
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