[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail auth

[Richard Humphrey]

Heh, that is really funny. I have been getting pounded with spam on the
email addy from my ISP. lol. They claim on their site that I can run a
mail server. I guess I should contact them.

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On Thu, 29 May 2003, Richard Humphrey wrote:

> Sorry for the long post but I am really trying to understand why this
> isnt working.
>
> I have a machine set up at home (RedHat 8 fully up2date) and it is
> running sendmail. I can receive mail just fine and send mail locally
on
> my LAN to both internal and external recipients. I have set up SMTP
AUTH
> (i think) and want to be able to send mail from outside my network
using
> my smtp server and authenticating against my username. I believe all
> this is set up correctly according to this website
> http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/smtpauth.html. When I try to send
an
> email i get the following error:
>
> The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'xxx.homedns.org',
> Server: 'xxx.homedns.org', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
> Socket Error: 10054, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
>

  telnet to port 25 on that machine.

  If it is refused, then your network provider is blocking port 25
access
at their routers to prevent spam.

bug



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