Re: invalid domain (with kmail)
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 14:04, David Bishop wrote:
It's an issue with your smtp relay on your machine. It can be a bit tricky
to setup, but if you are running debian and just need a simple smtp relay on
your machine (i.e., to use with mutt, pine, or kmail etc.) then just install
ssmtp (it will replace exim). ssmtp is very easy to set up and simply relays
your mail to another smtp server (eg., your isp's mail server) and it lets
you (easily) forge the "From" so that the relay will not reject your mail.
> So, I'm trying to send email to a domain that uses exim with kmail, and it
> consistenly rejects my email saying that david@dbishop is an invalid
> domain. Since this is the only email address that I have this problem with,
> I assume they turned on some sort of spam protection that looks at an
> X-header of the email to determine that (suprise, suprise!) my domain isn't
> "real". Well, I'm not going to change my whole hostname setup for a single
> email app (sorry), so I'm wondering if I can change something else. I'm
> using exim myself as my smtp server (localhost) so I was wondering what I
> have to do to make this work. Edit my exim config to "spoof" a valid
> domain? Edit my kmail config to do the same? Something else? I'm kinda
> lost here....
>
> Oh, and the reason that I'm sending this to debian-kde is that I didn't
> ever get this problem with my previous mailer (pronto), and I'm running
> debian. So, that leads me to suspect it is either a kde issue, or a
> debian-packaging of a kde issue (like the whole authenticating proxy thing,
> or the internet keywork search saying invalid url). Just to clarify :-)
>
> TIA,
>
> D.A.Bishop
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Tim Kelley
tpkelley@winkinc.com
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