Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 07:43:49 -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> David Wright writes:
> > I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames
> > send mail from this system.
>
> Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's
> try again.
>
> > Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there?
>
> wb5agz.swbell.net
>
> That should never show up on the remote end because this is the
> host name that is locally defined and not on any DNS A record.
What are the outputs of 'cat /etc/hosts' and 'hostname'? What do you
understand the significane of /etc/mailname to be?
> The user ID for me on the local system is martin. The
> user ID I registered on the smarthost was martin.m since martin
> without anything else already belongs to another customer. If I
> hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see
> martin.m@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve
> pop3 mail and the retrieval does work.
Your username on the system has nothing to do with the login username
(martin.m@suddenlink.net) and password for sending mail through an SMTP
server at suddenlink.net. All that the server cares about is getting
the correct authentication tokens.
> > Do you mean the From: line in your email header? What are you typing
> > in (or what is your mail client putting there) and where are you
> > observing the changed version?
>
> The mainlog file displays the error that
> smtp.suddenlink.net is reporting
>
> 2015-07-11 06:29:26 1ZDsyD-0001Rm-PO ** martin@shellworld.net R=smarthost
> T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after
> MAIL FROM:<martin@suddenlink.net> SIZE=1586: host smtp.suddenlink.net
> [208.180.40.68]: 553 Authentication is required to send mail as
> <martin@suddenlink.net>
>
> I totally agree. That should have been martin.m@suddenlink.net.
Nope; MAIL FROM: can be what you want it to be. Once you have been
authernticated, of course.
> That is where the wheels came off.
>
> The smarthost sees martin@suddenlink.net and what it should see
> in the From: line is martin.m@suddenlink.net
> Here are all the non-comments from update-exim4.conf.conf
MAIL FROM: and From: are not the same. The server couldn't care less
what From: is.
> dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'
All locally generated mail (by cron etc) is sent to the smarthost. If
that is what you want it's fine.
> dc_other_hostnames=''
This is not empty on my system.
> dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
> dc_readhost='suddenlink.net'
Headers are rewritten so that the local host name is replaced by
suddenlink.net
> dc_relay_domains=''
> dc_minimaldns='false'
> dc_relay_nets=''
> dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587'
> CFILEMODE='644'
> dc_use_split_config='true'
> dc_hide_mailname='true'
You are sure you want to do this?
> dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
> dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
>
> Here are all the important parts of passwd.client except the
> password.
>
> smtp.suddenlink.net:martin.m@smtp.suddenlink.net:SECRET
Looks ok.
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