ssmtp fails to open smtp server
Gary Schenk
gwschenk at socal.rr.com
Mon Dec 13 22:30:34 PST 2004
I need help, I'm out of ideas. I've just installed 5.3:
bash-2.05b$ uname -a
FreeBSD fuzz.socal.rr.com 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5
04:19:18 UTC 2004
root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
My email is working fine with Mozilla, however I'd like to get mutt
working. The problem is sending email with mutt. I first tried to make a
custom sendmail.cf file as outlined in the handbook vol.II page 334. I
wrote the file, and then tried to follow the instructions on page 332 to
make a valid sendamil.cf file. When I tried the command:
su-2.05b# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf
su: cd: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf: No such file or directory
The handbook on the web was no different. So that had me stuck. Reading
further I saw ssmtp might be the solution to my problems. As shown in
the handbook I installed ssmtp with 'make install replace clean' Then
did 'make replace' as per the message after installing. I then edited
the rc.conf file:
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Dec 10 06:18:23 2004
# Created: Fri Dec 10 06:18:23 2004
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
defaultrouter="***.**.**.**"
hostname="fuzz.socal.rr.com"
ifconfig_rl0="inet **.**.**.** netmask 255.255.255.0"
linux_enable="YES"
lpd_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
named_enable="YES"
ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpdate_flags="ntp.ucsd.edu"
saver="blank"
sshd_enable="YES"
svr4_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
And then created a ssmtp.conf file thusly:
su-2.05b# more /usr/local/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
root=gwschenk at socal.rr.com
mailhub=smtp-server at socal.rr.com
rewriteDomain=socal.rr.com
hostname=fuzz.socal.rr.com
When I installed, I gave my machine a hostname that I thought might help
me fool sendmail into working for me.
su-2.05b# hostname
fuzz.socal.rr.com
When I try to send mail from mutt I get these errors in /var/log/maillog:
Dec 13 21:55:44 fuzz sSMTP[525]: Unable to locate smtp-server at socal.rr.com
Dec 13 21:55:44 fuzz sSMTP[525]: Cannot open smtp-server at socal.rr.com:25
Dec 13 22:00:25 fuzz sSMTP[629]: Unable to locate smtp-server at socal.rr.com
Dec 13 22:00:25 fuzz sSMTP[629]: Cannot open smtp-server at socal.rr.com:25
I've botched something up, but don't know what. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Gary
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