Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9

Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9

[Krister Ekstrom]

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Hi  speakup,

  This is probably a fairly easy one, only i can't figure it out.
  I'm trying to do mail from my Linux box running Redhat 9
  speakupenabled. Now i'm trying to figure out how to go about sending
  mail from the system. Someone wrote to me privately and said that he
  let his ISP do the smtp-bit for him, but i never got an answer to
  how this was accomplished, (or i may have dumped it somewhere, but i
  hope not.:-)), so could you please tell me how you do it, because
obviously there's a way of doing this, only i haven't as of yet been
able to figure that one out.
  TIA

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Re: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

there's two ways you can do this.  You can either get  your mail server to
talk to your ISP's SMTP server, or you can get your mail program to do it
directly.  The advantage of getting your mail server to do it is that if
you have more than one user on your system, you will be able to send mail
locally between them and also you will only have to configure the outgoing
mail thing in one place, rather than have potentially several different
mail clients configured to do it direct to your ISP.  IT also has the
advantage that, if you use dialup, your mail server can queue the outgoing
mail and send it all when you connect to your ISP, and this won't get in
the way of anything else you're doing.

Exactly how you do this will depend on which mail server you are running
(for the first method) or which mail program you use (for the second).

Geoff.

Re: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9

[Krister Ekstrom]

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Hi Geoff,

On 27 Oct 2003 00:40:57  (my local time 26 okt 2003 15:40:57), you
typed::
GS> Exactly how you do this will depend on which mail server you are running
    GS> (for the first method) or which mail program you use (for the second).
Ok, it looks as if Sendmail is started by default, but i'm planning on
using Postfix, since this should be easier to set up, or so i'm told,
and for mailer i will be using Mutt.
Does this make any sence?
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/Krister
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RE: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9

[Joe Clever]

Krister,

If you have both sendmail and postfix installed on your system, there is a
tool in Redhat 9 to switch between them. Run the command
"redhat-switch-mail" and then select postfix, if that is what you want.

My suggestion is that you run the pine mail program to see if you can
communicate with your ISP's MTA, before trying to configure postfix with
mutt or postfix with pine. I think that pine works pretty much right out of
the box with the exceptions of the same things you would have to configure
with any MUA. Within pine there is a setup|configure menu, so no need to
muck with a config file, directly. I prefer to break things down into small
steps, before tackling something more complex, i.e. MUA to ISP, before MUA
to your MTA to ISP's MTA.

I have not used mutt, but someone pointed out in another thread that mutt
may not be capable of sending mail directly to your ISP. One of these days I
will setup mutt because I want threaded mail.

A caveat, make sure that you do not have firewall rules blocking any of the
services that you wish to run. On installation of Redhat 9, you were asked
what kind of security/firewall rules you wanted to run with.

On a personal note, I have been struggling with Linux for several years. At
times, it is frustrating because of the lack of, or the overabundance of
often poor documentation. At times, I wonder if it is worth the effort. At
times, I have had to walk away from it for awhile. As former president
Clinton used to say, "I feel your pain". I really do.





-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca] On
Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:51 AM
To: Geoff Shang
Subject: Re: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9


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Hi Geoff,

On 27 Oct 2003 00:40:57  (my local time 26 okt 2003 15:40:57), you
typed::
GS> Exactly how you do this will depend on which mail server you are running
    GS> (for the first method) or which mail program you use (for the
second).
Ok, it looks as if Sendmail is started by default, but i'm planning on
using Postfix, since this should be easier to set up, or so i'm told,
and for mailer i will be using Mutt.
Does this make any sence?
- --
/Krister
crisekstrom@bredband.net
 Get pgp keys here: mailto:crisekstrom@bredband.net?subject=get_pgp_keys
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