On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have any advice they can offer on setting up smtp_auth on my SuSE 8.0 >system at home? The problem I am trying to solve is this. My SuSE 8.0 system here >at home (dragoon.nuthole.de/localhost) is set up to send my emails out as >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Teamfinders.org is a domain that I have that is hosted by a >hosting service, and that service is not my ISP. My ISP is 1&1 here in Germany, and >I have a separate domain there that they offered as part of my DSL package. Several >times now I have gotten email deliveries rejected because the dynamically assigned IP >I receive from 1&1 is blackholed. There appears to possibly be an issue with the >machines at those addresses being open relays used for spamming. I have checked my >mail logs, and as far as I can tell, my machine is rejecting attempts to use it as an >open relay. Several of the rejection messages have suggested the possibility that >the emails would have been accepted if I had been using smtp_auth. > > I have read through SuSE's configuration file at /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, and >shortly I will start working my way through /usr/share/doc/packages/sendmail/README >and /usr/share/doc/packages/sendmail/op.txt.bz2. I have also printed out several >articles from www.sendmail.org/~ca/ and have begun to read through those. (That's >going to take several re-reads though before I've grokked all that.) So, I have no >shortage of information on the topic. What I was hoping for was that if anyone on >the list has some helpful hints or tips from having done something like this himself, >particularly setting up a home server to climb out of the black hole, then that might >help me get a step ahead. > > Cheers, > Sean > > Looks as if I'll need to do something similar soon, so maybe this link to my ISP might help - http://www.uklinux.net/support/#antispam
It seems you need to build your own MTA using the SASL libraries. There are instructions for the changes to postfix or exim, and a pointer to sendmail.org. Ken -- Out of the darkness a voice spake unto me, saying "smile, things could be worse". So I smiled, and lo, things became worse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
