Chris,
All HUGELY helpful, thanks.
My first guess would have been your postfix server changed addresses
or in some other way is now refusing the OS 9 machine. I'd do a few
things.
1. ping the postfix server from the OS 9 machine.
Well, I did even better. I set up web serving on the OS X machine and
was able to see a page from the OS9 machine. I even put an entry in
the hosts file and that worked, I could see a web page at
outsider.mightycheese.com
(An aside: I couldn't find anything OS9-friendly on the interarchy
site.)
2. try connecting via telnet from OS 9 to postfix on port 25.
I couldn't get to it on the OS9 machine and then I figured I would try
it from my MacBook Pro on the same LAN. I get:
MightyMacca:bunch colin$ ping 192.168.254.23
PING 192.168.254.23 (192.168.254.23): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.254.23: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.127 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.254.23: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.750 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.254.23: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.911 ms
--- 192.168.254.23 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.750/0.929/1.127/0.154 ms
MightyMacca:bunch colin$ telnet 192.168.254.23:25
192.168.254.23:25: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
So I was able to ping the OS X server no trouble at all. But when I
tried telnet to port 25 it failed with that odd error. That looks to
be the root of my Network Stream error. Do you have any idea where I
might look to discover why OS X has clammed up like this?
I know postfix is running, because if I ssh into Outsider I can send
mail from the command line and it goes out. Or it did a couple days
ago, I haven't checked it today. I just did this out of curiosity,
after ssh'ing into Outsider:
Connected to localhost:25.
Escape character is '^]'.
Host/Domain name is invalid
Connection closed by foreign host.
[Outsider:~] colin%
Shouldn't postfix answer localhost:25 when I am on that machine? (This
could demonstrate a void in my understanding.)
your postfix machine is not technically using a proper internal IP
address. 192.254 is outside of the reserved class C block. You
should be on 192.168.x.x.
Lysdexic error. The OS X machine is at 192.168.254.23
Also, put an entry into your OS 9 hosts file to convert your postfix
IP to DNS.
Done. Excellent suggestion.
Or, you can check out the SMTP Auth hacked version of Emailer on my
web site
I would LOVE to do this, instead of my hacked up arrangement (which
requires that I keep the OS X machine running all the time). What do I
do? Is it all built-in?
Thanks again for your help,
--Colin
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