sendmail

[Gerry Doris]

If you want sendmail to authenticate with Rogers (required to send mail via 
Rogers) then you need to use sendmail's access database option.  Put the 
following line in the access file with a valid user at rogers.com and password. 
Don't forget to run a makemap command to create the access db file properly. 
The sendmail.mc file needs to have the proper feature command to enable the 
access file.

AuthInfo:smtp-rog.mail.yahoo2.akadns.net "U:user at rogers.com" 
"P:user_password"

Then add the following line to sendmail.mc

define(`SMART_HOST',`esmtp:[smtp.broadband.rogers.com]')

There's lots of sendmail config HowTo's explaining how to set up the config 
files.  Just use the above Rogers specific info.  I suggest you use 
fetchmail to pull email from the Rogers server.  It's easy to setup.

It's against Roger's end user agreement to run a server on their network. 
They actively scan for servers and will threaten to discontinue your service 
if they find one.  Also, Rogers uses dynamic ip's.  Their range of ip 
addresses is checked by programs like spamassassin and your email will be 
discarded if found to come from within their range.  Just use the smart host 
feature and pull incoming mail from their server.  It will make your life 
much easier.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linux Linux" <linuxgr8 at gmail.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: sendmail


> Ahmed,
>
> Try tcptraceroute. you can use tcptraceroute utility to trace where is the
> port 25 blocked.
> you may need to download a rpm package for tcptraceroute and install it.
>
> I have heard that Rogers does not allow running servers on home internet. 
> I
> believe Bell does.
>
> Thanks
> Pankaj
>
> On 1/16/07, Ahmed Mohamed <ajmoham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Jeremy L. Gaddis and all.
>>
>> I was suspecting all along that the problem might be with outbound port 
>> 25
>> blocked but I was not completely sure. To get around the problem, I have
>> since tried other ports like cyrus2 587. In addition, I configurered
>> SMART_HOST with  (`smtp.broadband.rogers.com')dnl   (I am not sure if it
>> is
>> correct the
>> one - Rogers folks would'nt tell you). No luck.
>>
>> By the way, does anyone know of CANADIAN ISP provider that allow
>> port-forwarding
>> like mail, http, and the like. Your suggestions are welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/07, Gaddis, Jeremy L. <jeremy at linuxwiz.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 1/14/07, Ahmed Mohamed <ajmoham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I have a problem with sendmail. I am setting up a mail server at home
>> > and
>> > > I am using Fedora 6 with sendmail  version sendmail-8.13.8-2. I
>> > succeeded
>> > > receiving mail from
>> > > outside but I am unable to send outside mail (SMTP problem?). The
>> > following
>> > > is the output generated
>> > > by the mail log daemon:
>> >
>> > Chances are good that your ISP is filtering traffic outbound on 25/TCP
>> > to servers other than their own.  You may have to configure sendmail
>> > to use your ISP's mail servers as a "smart host".
>> >
>> > --
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