I hit the same wall - I was able to send/receive via the server, but had problems connecting my workstation to the server to send/receive. Turns out it was a problem with authentication. So, I'm going to assume for a moment that you are using SASL authentication (it seems to be the default in some distros).
You need to run the command "saslpasswd Username", replacing Username with the user you want to setup authentication for. this will prompt you for a password, and then ask you to confirm it. Once this is in place, you should be able to use that username/password in your mail client on the workstation for SMTP/POP3. I've just setup a dummy account which is going to be the target of a number of aliases, I got bounced messages when sending to any of these aliases until I ran the saslpasswd command. Then everything worked perfectly. If on the otherhand, you are not using SASL, then you need to investigate this issue with your authentication package. (I've seen reference to using MySQL for authentication in a number of places, but you should know if that's how you're setup or not...) HTH Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:11 AM To: CLUG TALK Subject: (clug-talk) Sendmail Hi all, The recent posting by Shawn trying to get an e-mail server running inspired me to do the same. I seem to be doing fairly well so far. I setup an account with dyndns and I am running the client on the mail server. I'm not sure if it works, but dyndns does have my correct IP address at the moment so so far so good. I setup evolution on the mail server to do some testing. From there I can send e-mail through my mail server to my telus account. I can also send mail from my telus account and receive it through my mail server. The problem is that when I try to setup a mail client on my other machine, and have it go though the Internet to send and receive mail from my mail server it cannot connect to the smtp or pop3 servers. From within my LAN I am able to telnet into both ports 25 and 110, however if I try to telnet through the Internet address my connection is refused. I have setup the port forwarding on my router and it seems to be working since I can send and receive mail on the mail server through the Internet. I'm not quite sure where to go from here. What am I missing? TIA, Jesse -- Jesse Kline, RHCT http://www3.telus.net/public/klinej/resume.html
