Re: Forcing Netscape to use MTA
On Nov 21, 1999 at 10:55:35AM, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "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...
I did. Had to do that to get fetchmail to work...
> 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.
Under preferences, mail servers, outgoing mail server I have entered
`localhost'.
After considerable fiddling with exim.conf, I was able to get Netscape
to work by doing one of the following:
1) relay_domains = *
or
2) commenting out the line: `sender_host_reject_relay = *'
I don't think either solution is very desirable, but since I'm on a dial-up
box with dynamic IP connections I won't sweat it too much.
> 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 ;-).
I would tend to agree. Hopefully Mozilla will be non-broken...
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Matthew Roberts
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