On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:34:16AM -0500, you (Stefano Ferri) wrote: > > > 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
Hi Stefano, do I understand correctly: you want to use mutt with pop/smpt on a laptop? If so I suggest you'll have a look at the msmtp project. This should be a simple and convenient way to solve our smtp problem. Regards, markus
