Marco Fioretti wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I need some help to configure my computer to send mail outside.
> Right now, on a plain Mandrake 6.0 install, I am able to:
>
> 1) Connect to the Internet, both via Kppp and custom shell script
> 2) Surf the Net just fine, via Netscape/lynx whatever.
> 3) Receive all incoming mail to my personal account, both with
> KMail and fetchmail
>
> Now the proble: I can't send any mail after my provider's SMTP
> server.
> Please note I could do it before installing Mandrake 6.0.
>
> After messing up with Kmail configuration several times the
> farther I got is this:
> If I send test messages to:
> The account I'm using to connect to the net, ("MAIN")
> this account I'm using now (office),
> and to another personal free account I have, this last
> one is the only who receives the message.
>
> This account (office), the "MAIN" one, and all my friends accounts,
> never receive anything.
>
> The only reaction is my office SMTP server rejecting the message
> because it looks like it is sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> which is (obviously) not a valid domain (localnet is my home network,
> with reserved IP numbers).
>
> I just realized that the IP number I assigned to my machine on the
> local network and the dynamic one the ISP assigns are necessarily
> different: might this be what messes up everything?
>
> Any help is appreciated, since this is almost the last reason left
> to keep the evil empire on my older computer :-))
>
> Regards,
> Marco Fioretti
You may want to give 'install-sendmail' a try. Worked great for me. You can
get it via http://members.xoom.com/xeer/index.html.
Regards
tom
