Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:56:05 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link -- Thanks Message-ID: <200503290056.06112.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <20050328172502.1e0ed2b5.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> References: <200503280500.15465.danny@ricin.com> <4247C52B.2060509@xbsd.org> <20050328172502.1e0ed2b5.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org>
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On Monday 28 March 2005 17:25, you wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:49:47 +0200 > > Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> wrote: > > Danny Pansters a =E9crit : > > > 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? > > > > > > (also...contrast this inconvenience with every non-subscribed spammer > > > being able to spam us if she has a colo set up properly...) > > > > You might want to use ssmtp. Since you're using your ISP's smtp > > server to send mail, there should be no problem if you don't > > have a FQDN hostname. > > A very simple and complicated HOWTO :) > http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/~clement/FreeBSD/send-pr+ssmtp.txt > > clem This is an excellent solution, much better than what I did before. I was=20 actually editing the sendmail .cf file to change my FQDN and address. Messy. I can simply use my regular email address @ricin.com (at a hosting provider= )=20 too now. Both send-pr and porttools need a slight modification to also take= =20 the preferred email adress from .ssmtprc. To have the right <from> and be=20 also recognised as maintainer by porttools something like this will do:=20 =2D-- cmd_submit.orig Tue Mar 29 00:10:35 2005 +++ cmd_submit Tue Mar 29 00:36:17 2005 @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ COMMITTER=3D"no" RUN_PORTLINT=3D"yes" +# Set EMAIL to what's in ~/.ssmtprc if it exists +if [ -f ${HOME}/.ssmtprc ]; then + EMAIL=3D"`cat ${HOME}/.ssmtprc`" +fi + # Parse command line arguments ARGS=3D`/usr/bin/getopt hm:d:s:p:cL $*` if [ $? !=3D 0 ] Thanks a lot, sane solution with little effort, just the way I like it :) Dan
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