Any suggestions gratefully welcomed.
I have an account on a system where no one's using MH. However, Pine
and Elm work fine, so I assume MH should.
% uname -a
FreeBSD ainaz.pair.com 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Thu Nov 9 16:53:20 EST
2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/PAIRk i386
NMH 1.0.4 is installed:
% which inc
/usr/local/bin/inc
% inc -version
inc -- nmh-1.0.4 [compiled on naberi.pair.com at Mon Oct 16 11:28:11 EST 2000]
Receiving mail is fine, but sending mail fails to work for any address:
% send
Use "/usr/home/roberoi/Mail/draft"? y
-- Posting for All Recipients --
-- Network Recipients --
rohan.oberoi at cornell.edu: loses; [USER] 553 sorry, that domain
isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
post: 1 addressee undeliverable
send: message not delivered to anyone
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It seems that MH is trying to use a relay SMTP server instead of just
passing the mail along to Sendmail (actually QMail, but it has a
Sendmail clone at /usr/sbin/sendmail). I suggested changing servers:
localhost in the mts.conf file to sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail, but
that doesn't seem to have fixed the problems.
I really need to get MH working here (and I would reinstall MH, but
I'm not the sysadmin, so I really need to figure out exactly what the
problem is and what the sysadmin needs to do to fix it).
Here is the mts.conf file as it is now:
% cat /usr/local/etc/nmh/mts.conf
# nmh mail transport interface customization file.
# Check the mh-tailor(5) man page for a list of
# all the available options for this file.
#
# The exceptions file for /etc/hosts used by
# `post' to try to find official names.
hostable: /usr/local/etc/nmh/hosts
#
# Name that nmh considers `local'. If not set, nmh will
# query the system for this value (gethostname, etc...).
#localname: foo.bar.com
#
# The following directive allows email address masquerading. The
# string "draft_from mmailid username_extension" will allow all three
# types.
masquerade:
#
# Default location of mail drops. If this option is
# set, but empty, the user's home directory is used.
mmdfldir: /var/mail
#
# The name of the maildrop file in the directory where maildrops
# are kept. If this is empty, the user's login name is used.
mmdflfil:
#
# Hardcoded POP server name (prevents inc'ing from local mail spool).
#pophost: localhost
#
# List of smtp servers to try if using smtp support
# servers: localhost
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
