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MTA misconfigured (was Re: MUTT persists)



On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:04:19PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
| I still don't get the mutt setup.  It was rather easy
| to set up balsa, but mutt simply won't get mail out to
| yahoo (or anyplace other than my email account at my
| internet server).

As Grant said, *it is not mutt*.  It is exim that you have
misconfigured.

| I get email from my pop account through mutt.

This is irrelevant because POP is a retrieval protocol, and has
nothing to do with sending (SMTP).

| The server is setup as in balsa.

No it's not.  In balsa, you tell it the SMTP server to use, and what
envelope and header from to use.  (I just installed balsa to verify
that)  Mutt instead passes the message to your local MTA (as specified
by the $sendmail variable, but the default is correct)

| But mutt always gets yahoo sent email bounced back as
| folows:
|
| SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL
| FROM:<my_linux_user_name> SIZE=1468:
|     host mx2.mail.yahoo.com [64.157.4.88]:
|     501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments

What *EXACTLY* is <my_linux_user_name>?

$ telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com smtp
Trying 64.157.4.82...
Connected to mta-v12.level3.mail.yahoo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 YSmtp mta614.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP service ready
EHLO dman.ddts.net
250-mta614.mail.yahoo.com
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 5242880
250 PIPELINING
MAIL FROM:<dman@dman.ddts.net> SIZE=1468
250 sender <dman@dman.ddts.net> ok
RSET
250 reset ok
MAIL FROM:<fubar> SIZE=1468
501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments
QUIT
221 mta614.mail.yahoo.com
Connection closed by foreign host.

| I must have missed on of the 200 or so variables in
| the .muttrc file.

Not there.  Show us what is in /etc/email-addresses instead.  You need
to put the line

my_linux_user_name: doccpu@yahoo.com

in there.  (replace "my_linux_user_name" with your actual user name)

HTH,
-D

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