On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:30:22PM -0800, Gary Schenk wrote: > I need help, I'm out of ideas. I've just installed 5.3: > > bash-2.05b$ uname -a > FreeBSD fuzz.socal.rr.com 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 > 04:19:18 UTC 2004 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > My email is working fine with Mozilla, however I'd like to get mutt > working. The problem is sending email with mutt. I first tried to make a > custom sendmail.cf file as outlined in the handbook vol.II page 334. I > wrote the file, and then tried to follow the instructions on page 332 to > make a valid sendamil.cf file. When I tried the command: > > su-2.05b# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf > su: cd: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf: No such file or directory
This is actually to be found in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/cf/ > The handbook on the web was no different. So that had me stuck. Reading > further I saw ssmtp might be the solution to my problems. As shown in > the handbook I installed ssmtp with 'make install replace clean' Then > did 'make replace' as per the message after installing. I then edited > the rc.conf file: > [---snip---] > sendmail_enable="NONE" > > And then created a ssmtp.conf file thusly: > > su-2.05b# more /usr/local/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > rewriteDomain=socal.rr.com > hostname=fuzz.socal.rr.com > > When I installed, I gave my machine a hostname that I thought might help > me fool sendmail into working for me. > > su-2.05b# hostname > fuzz.socal.rr.com > > When I try to send mail from mutt I get these errors in /var/log/maillog: > > Dec 13 21:55:44 fuzz sSMTP[525]: Unable to locate [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dec 13 21:55:44 fuzz sSMTP[525]: Cannot open [EMAIL PROTECTED]:25 > Dec 13 22:00:25 fuzz sSMTP[629]: Unable to locate [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dec 13 22:00:25 fuzz sSMTP[629]: Cannot open [EMAIL PROTECTED]:25 > > I've botched something up, but don't know what. Any ideas? It looks to me as if mailhub should be an fqdn of a mail relay server, not an email address... Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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