From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 03:56:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753AD16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:56:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B6943D49 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:56:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from [69.34.135.207] (helo=kt.weeble.com) by smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DFlMv-0005di-Dq for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:56:49 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=test1; d=earthlink.net; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=TQf8VeIG3vMnM7N21k3XIGaSxoAmyVOHgOyO+A6CxnYfiA82I4o3COjQSq3OO9jx; Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:56:48 -0500 From: Randy Pratt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050327225648.5ba62806.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com> References: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 96132b9c1759af1df21c5f5255d6c174239a348a220c26096de76e52d263fde13f1f64e5fdfd6f5c387f7b89c61deb1d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.34.135.207 Subject: Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl) provider link X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:56:50 -0000 On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:00:15 +0200 Danny Pansters 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 --