Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-02-05 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: In case someone else also wants to setup this, here's the final steps to make relaying work. Relaying does not work yet, I get a Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command) error. But my initial goal is reached, I can send mail to {root,wonko}@wonkology.org. That's all I

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-28 Thread Stroller
On 26/1/2011, at 4:52pm, kashani wrote: ... ??? What password in ssmtp.conf ??? My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf has 4 uncommented lines. They are... ... If you set it up to email you stuff using e.g. your email account, you would also need authentication credentials: Ya, but he's got a

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-26 Thread Stroller
On 26/1/2011, at 6:46am, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:04:16 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:34:11PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-26 Thread kashani
On 1/26/2011 1:07 AM, Stroller wrote: On 26/1/2011, at 6:46am, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:04:16 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:34:11PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:34:11PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one with root access there, I do not want to duplicate the ssmtp setup because of the password stored

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-25 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:04:16 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:34:11PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one with root access there, I do not want

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alex Schuster
kashani writes: On 1/22/2011 1:34 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I handle it with Postfix. Dovecot is only imap and won't accept main directly. Whoops. 1. install postfix with USE sasl or devecot-sasl, I don't believe it matters which. Add the following lines to the bottom of

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread kashani
On 1/23/2011 11:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Relaying does not work yet, I get a Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command) error. But my initial goal is reached, I can send mail to {root,wonko}@wonkology.org. That's all I wanted. Many many thanks kashani! Your howto is much more than I

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:56 on Sunday 23 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: On 1/23/2011 11:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Relaying does not work yet, I get a Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command) error. But my initial goal is reached, I can send mail to

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread kashani
On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are hard, and finding the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is really hard.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are hard, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread kashani
On 1/23/2011 4:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't really want *me* to manage it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 January 2011 01:22:09 kashani wrote: On 1/23/2011 4:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:22 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: There's lots more examples, but they all follow a similar theme. Thanks for the extra detail, I found what you're describing very interesting. I've never dealt with Postfix with more than a

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:00 on Monday 24 January 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Monday 24 January 2011 01:22:09 kashani wrote: On 1/23/2011 4:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:02 on Monday 24 January 2011, kashani did opine thusly: On

[gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! On my desktop PC, I have set up ssmtp with access data for my mail server, so things like smartmontools or portage can send me emails. This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one with root access

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-22 Thread kashani
On 1/22/2011 1:34 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! On my desktop PC, I have set up ssmtp with access data for my mail server, so things like smartmontools or portage can send me emails. This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails