No, Heller doesn't block port 25. They do restrict use of their smtp servers to so they aren't open relays. Prevents randoms from injecting spam. I don't want clients to authenticate to my mail server, I want(ed) my own sendmail to authenticate to Heller's server as a client.
Meanwhile, I re-discovered that I needed to adjust things in nmh's mts.conf and bypass my local sendmail. Then apparently it can send out based on having authenticated to Heller's IMAP server. Either that, or it's a completely open relay now. I went through this just a few months ago and forgot :) thanks Judah Rob Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:38:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone here actually have this set up and running? If so, can you > > post your sendmail.cf or better yet sendmail.mc and explain the cert > > stuff? > > > > My ISP (Heller) "upgraded" my account and now I can't get email out. > > It used to work simply by auth'ing to the IMAP server, but now it > > seems this doesn't work anymore. I've found relatively little stuff on > > the web; most is directed at setting up sendmail auth from the server > > side. > > I'm a bit confused by your question. It sounds to me like your ISP > has initiated the standard-don't-let-customers-send-SPAM response of > blocking outgoing port 25 -- is that true? > > The smtp auth stuff is so that foreign clients can connect to your > mail server, and authenticate themselves to your mail server, so that > your mail server can then resend their mail to its destionation (i.e., > to allow relaying). If you are not able to send mail from your computer > now, then smpt auth (on the server side) will not help you. > > It sound to me what you want is to configure your mail client to do smtp > auth to your *ISP's* mail server. How to set this up depends on your > mail client and which smtp auth flavors Heller supports. > > It might be that the simplest thing for you to do is set your local smtp > server to redirect mail to their smtp servers, via the sendmail smart host > config option. Let me know what's actually going on and if any of up > suppositions are true, and I should be able to better direct you. > > - Rob > . >
