Re: smail configuration?

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

"Kevin M. Bealer" <kmb203@psu.edu> writes:

> I am trying to configure smail.  I have read the documentation,
> searched the source code for an hour or so, and tried to use the
> generic configuration script at different settings.
> 
> I have been at this for several days -- my mail is still bouncing.
> 
> 
> I am on a system which does not have a permanent connection, rather it
> has a dynamic IP through Penn State.
> 
> 
> When the mail bounces, it comes back with a message to the effect that
> the hostname in question does not exist.  This is true of course,
> since it is the hostname of the local system, which is a dial up dynamic
> IP thing.
> 
> When using the debian "configure smail" script, there are 5 or so
> options.  The UUCP to smarthost seems to be the closest, except that
> instead of UUCP I want to use smtp.  Unfortunately, there is not an
> option like this, and although I have tried to modify that setup to
> do the job, it seems to do about the same.
> 
> Some hosts bounce, some do not -- I assume hosts that are trying to
> prevent spam etc are bouncing more than those that aren't.
> 
> People have to be using it this way... what is the trick?  It shouldn't
> make any difference, but I am using (mh).

I have a Dialup Account with mail.combox.de being the smart host.  I
used the smailconfig program with selection

        (1) Internet site: you send and receive Internet mail on this
            machine, using SMTP over TCP/IP.

I had leave the visible names as suggested and entered the name of my
smart host when asked about it.

Then I choose:

        Do you wish to use the smarthost for:
         (1) All outbound mail.  This is good if your system is poorly
            connected, eg via dialup SLIP, as you don't have to talk
            to distant machines yourself, and it allows you to send out
            just one copy of a message for all its the remote recipients.

(2) seems reasonable as well too.

Of course I answered that root should get all adminstrative messages.


After doing this all worked fine.  Local messages are transported
immediatly.  Remote messages are transported if I'm online, in offline
state the messages are stored in the message queue and I have to
invoke runq to send them while being online.

Comparing to sendmail where I had to fiddle with the extensive flag
smail seems to be much easier to configure, especially with the
smailconfig script provided by the package.

        Torsten

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