Still no sendmail - but a clue?

[Ian J. Kennedy]

Hi Bill,

It's possible that AOL "firewalls" the port 25 connection for it's 
Broadband customers. There are a number of Viruses and Trojans that will 
run a SMTP server on a victims PC to send out Spam. AOL doesn't like that!

Have you tried editing the "SMART_HOST" line in sendmail.mc
It probably reads now:
dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')
It needs to read the same as the smtp server you're using in Evolution, 
probably:

define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.aol.com')

This should send all "non-local" mail to AOL for delivery in the same way 
as Evolution does. Note the ` and ' (left single quote and right single 
quote) - they make a difference. Also remember than "dnl" - delete to new 
line - is the sendmail version of a comment.

After you run make -C /etc/mail
try grep DS /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

You should get a line back DSsmtp.aol.com.

Assuming you do, restart sendmail and try again.



-----Original Message-----
From:	William John Murray [SMTP:w.murray at rl.ac.uk]
Sent:	Friday, March 11, 2005 7:59 AM
To:	Fedora-List
Subject:	Still no sendmail - but a clue?

   Hello again,
             I have been stuck, able to 'send email' from mail clients,
unable to use sendmail for systems logs etc.  I think dns is OK, but
still get errors dsn 5.6.0 stat="Data Format Error"

Alexander pointed out I should not test as root. I did not think it
would matter, as the sendmail daemon is root anyway, but thank you.

Also I know I need authinfo, this I think I am providing.

But I tried 'telnet smtp.aol.com 25' and 'telnet my-employer 25'
and saw somthing very odd. The connect message is:

220 smtp-los01.proxy.aol.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Fri, 11 Mar
2005 02:53:43 -0500

for any host I connect to, with the los01 number maybe changing.
Somehow I get redirected to AOL whenever I use port 25. Does this ring a
bell with anyone? [Recall..I can send email from evolution]

If I go a dns lookup this is not the expected route.

  Thanks!
    Bill

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