The following attempt to contact the outside world fails:
mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
I immediately receive a message that includes the following error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 553 <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>...unresolvable;
rejected. Check your DNS
All attempts to get any mail off my machine fail with similar errors. I
called my ISP, and they offered some excuse that "Linux is designed as
a server environment, and it doesn't like routing mail through another
machine." They suggested I either switch to Windows or Macintosh, or send
all mail by first telnetting into their network, then using my shell
account to send mail. The latter is the technique I used to send this
posting.
I'm using smail on a hamm system, and getting a ppp connection to my ISP.
I used to be able to send mail from my machine, and I think I haven't
changed any smail configs since then.
How do tell smail to route mail through my ISP? /etc/smail/routers is
only
smart_host:
driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
and /etc/smail/config attempts to indicate that mail should be routed
through my ISP (netnet.net) via the following line:
smart_path=netnet.net
Thanks,
Matt Miller
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"Small is beautiful."
-- Mark Gancarz, "The Unix Philosophy"
