Re: Forcing Netscape to use MTA
>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew W Roberts <matt@lehi.tamu.edu> writes:
Matthew> This has to be a Netscape thing, though, because Mutt
Matthew> works just fine. I have also set the exim configuration
Matthew> file to accept localhost.
I will assume you mean here that you have configured exim to relay
mail coming from "localhost". Otherwise, please do so...
Matthew> My guess is that Netscape
Matthew> expects SMTP type response from my system but is not
Matthew> getting it, so it aborts. I'm wondering if it is
Matthew> possible to get Netscape to use MTA `protocols' instead.
Sorry, I missed the start of this thread, so I might have missed
something.
What hostname do you have netscape try to connect to?
If you use "localhost" port "25", then I agree, you do have a Netscape
problem.
If, on the other hand, you have configured netscape to connect
to <hostname> port "25" (where <hostname>!="localhost"), then you
will need to configure exim to accept connections from <hostname>, as
well as "localhost".
Remember TCP considers "localhost" and <hostname> to be two completely
different addresses, even if they do happen to correspond to the same
computer.
Matthew> Now, as you can probably tell, I'm not a mail guru so the
Matthew> above may not make any sense. Really, the issue is that
Matthew> Mutt works just fine and as expected, but Netscape has
Matthew> problems.
I think non-broken programs should send mail via /usr/sbin/sendmail,
in which case, mail relaying isn't required. Obviously, Netscape
doesn't fit this category ;-).
Probably mutt does the correct thing, hence doesn't have any problems.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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