frantisek holop wrote: > hi there, > > recently i have sent bug report using sendbug > and did not get a gnats confirmation. > > it was from a 4.2-current machine, older one > obviously, and i was wondering if there is > some incompatibility between the old and new > sendbug... > > i thought maybe the mail didn't get through > for some reason, but i can't find it on > http://www.openbsd.org/query-pr.html > either... > > -f
Unfortunately (for gnats), many ISPs block outbound port 25 traffic to anything other than their mail servers. Even if yours doesn't block port 25, I'm pretty sure the target machine uses greylisting, so you have to leave the machine you used sendbug on up long enough to clear the greylisting. /var/log/maillog will tell the story... IF you have your own mail server, I've had some luck killing sendmail on the local machine, then doing an ssh port forwarding of port 25 to your mail server. Something like this might work for you (as root, since you are messing with a priv. port) ssh -f -N -L 25:localhost:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it might not, too. Something like that worked for me, but I didn't jot down exactly what I did, so that might not be it. If this DOES work for you, let me know so I can put it in my "notes" (i.e., the FAQ :) properly) Don't forget to kill that ssh session and restart sendmail to bring the system back up to proper operation when done! Nick.
