On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Emile Carcamo wrote: > > I can now successfully send email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" using > > elm, but when I try and send a similar message using exmh, it complains > > that: > > > > mark at ist.flinders.edu.au: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator > > post: 1 addressee undeliverable > > send: message not delivered to anyone > > > > Why won't exmh let me do it if elm will. What on earth is going on? > > This is a mh/nmh related problem. You may check the file : > > /usr/local/nmh/etc/mts.conf (for nmh releases) > > Let me know how it goes once this has been customized to > fit your site specs... Best regards,
Thanks for your help. I changed over to nmh (I had mh before) as this seems to be better? Still had the same problem though. I have looked at the mts.conf file and read the documentation I could find but I can't see what's wrong. It looks okay to me, but then I am new to configuring email and such things. The settings look correct (I think) and I can't see where it prohibits the relaying of an external email. The options set in the mts.conf file are: mmdfldir: /var/spool/mail mmdflfil: hostable: /etc/nmh/hosts servers: localhost Now there is no /etc/nmh/hosts file. Is this a problem? I use exim which is a drop-in replacement for sendmail and it is configured to pass non-local messages on to the outside world, so surely the only server nmh needs to know about is localhost, and exim will do the rest? As I said before, will elm, everything seems to work okay. Cheers, Mark. _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"