Dear folks,
this is the first time I post in this mailing list. I am not a "real" system administrator but I had the chance to be root on many Unix/Linux machines (usually machines used for mathematical simulation with very few users, I am a mathematician in real life), both Sun and x86. I have used mutt for many years, usually with little or no problems but recently I tried to set up mutt on a laptop to be used with the pop and smtp servers of our university and I had a hell of a time. I hope that some of you have the time and the patience to read what I did and to help me. Possibly the real problem is with the sendmail setting, I hope this does not make this message OT. This is what I did. I am running Linux 2.6.9-11.EL, so mutt (1.4.1i) comes as a part of the distribution. I just started by adding the following lines to .muttrc set mbox = $mypopserver set pop_host = $mypopserver set pop_user = [EMAIL PROTECTED] set spoolfile = $mypopserver set pop_pass="$my.mail.password" set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail" This way I could read my mail but when I tried to send mail it sometimes did not work. Namely, I could send mail to most commercial addresses (like yahoo or gmail) but if I sent a mail to myself or to collegues in other universities the mail bounched back with a message saying that my mailer was badly configurated. I started to think that the problem was in the fact that smtp was not properly accessed (but why did it work to yahoo then?), so I changed the sendmail.mc file un-commenting the following lines: define(`SMART_HOST',`$mysmtpserver') MASQUERADE_AS(`$mydomain') FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) I also changes the file access adding the following line: AuthInfo:$mysmtpserver "U:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "I:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "P:my.mail.massword" and run make from /etc/mail It turned out that I did not have the sendmail-cf package. I downloaded a version called sendmail 8.13.8.orig.tar.gz from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/sendmail-cf This, unce gunzipped and untarred create a strange maze of directories: /usr/local/sendmail-8.13.8/sendmail-8.13.8/cf/cf from which I made make install-cf It did not complain but now mutt...does nothing (I mean, I can read but not send anything). I then figured out that maybe the SSL certificate was the problem, I went to /usr/share/ssl/certs and gave the command make sendmail.pem which seemed to produce something. However still cannot send mail... If I try to send and then make ps -ef | grep sendmail I get the following: root 2190 1 0 08:10 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 2198 1 0 08:10 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue Did any of you have any idea of what did I do wrong? Suggestions or help? Thank you in advance for your time. Stefano
