Re: elm email gets through, exmh email doesn't
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Emile Carcamo wrote:
> > I can now successfully send email to "mark@ist.flinders.edu.au" using
> > elm, but when I try and send a similar message using exmh, it complains
> > that:
> >
> > mark at ist.flinders.edu.au: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to
> > <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au> prohibited by administrator
> > post: 1 addressee undeliverable
> > send: message not delivered to anyone
> >
> > Why won't exmh let me do it if elm will. What on earth is going on?
>
> This is a mh/nmh related problem. You may check the file :
>
> /usr/local/nmh/etc/mts.conf (for nmh releases)
>
> Let me know how it goes once this has been customized to
> fit your site specs... Best regards,
Thanks for your help.
I changed over to nmh (I had mh before) as this seems to be better? Still
had the same problem though. I have looked at the mts.conf file and read
the documentation I could find but I can't see what's wrong. It looks
okay to me, but then I am new to configuring email and such things. The
settings look correct (I think) and I can't see where it prohibits the
relaying of an external email.
The options set in the mts.conf file are:
mmdfldir: /var/spool/mail
mmdflfil:
hostable: /etc/nmh/hosts
servers: localhost
Now there is no /etc/nmh/hosts file. Is this a problem? I use exim which
is a drop-in replacement for sendmail and it is configured to pass
non-local messages on to the outside world, so surely the only server nmh
needs to know about is localhost, and exim will do the rest? As I said
before, will elm, everything seems to work okay.
Cheers,
Mark.
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