I would try exim instead of smail, I've found it easier to set up with nice docs. I'm trying to get address re-writing working now, but at least I can send messages (albeit with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a From: address). The rewrite stuff has fairly good instructions. I think I got errors something like yours also, I think it turned out to be a question of picking the right response when asked for a hostname at some point in there and restarting inetd or some deamon like that (helpful huh?). Anyway, good luck, and let me know if you get rewriting working logically for a ppp connected machine :)
__ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Matt Miller wrote: > 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 > > ----------------------------- > "Small is beautiful." > -- Mark Gancarz, "The Unix Philosophy" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
