On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 08:44 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 07:35 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > > I have been trying to (A) configure my office machine (using RedHat) to > > act as an outgoing mail server using port 587 and (B) to configure > > evolution on my home machine (Fedora 11) for sending email through > > my office machine. > > > > I think I've managed to configure sendmail.mc on the office machine > > to use port 587. > > nmap office-machine > > run on my home machine yields (among other things) > > 25/tcp filtered smtp > > 587/tcp open submission > > (I need the 25/tcp so my office machine continues to accept other > > incoming mail so as to act as a mail transfer agent.) > > Are you sure that sendmail is actually listening on the right port (nmap > just says that *something* is listening)? Are you sure that the Evo > machine is sending to the same port? Try telnetting to that port and see > if you get the SMTP greeting.
I put the following lines in sendmail.mc on the office machine DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl which were recommended in something google found for me. The second is supposed to be what you need to enable port 587. The file sendmail.mc in fact tells you to uncomment that line to receive on port 587 . The first is to ensure others can still connect using port 25. If I remove both statements from sendmail.mc, which is basically how it comes, then nmap shows smtp at 25 and nothing at 587. With bo th configured, telnet office-machine N gives exactly the same response for N = 25 and N =587. > > > But I can't configure evolution to send mail using my office > > machine. Nothing I try works. > > You need to be more explicit. What have you tried? How does it fail? > It would take too long to list every thing I tried. It would be easier for me if someone told me what does work than if I had to list everything that doesn't work and the error messages that result. If no one comes up with any thing, I will try to be more specific about the details of what happens with each choice. > poc > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
