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From: Tom Newton on 1 Feb 2008 13:56
On 2008-02-01, Vwaju <lou(a)manhattanhandyman.com> wrote:
> I have studied Slackware Linux Essentials and Running Linux, and I'm
> stuck.
>
> I have my 9.1 Slackware installation configured to start the sendmail
> server at boot and ps -acux shows that send mail is running.
>
> I have a solid broadband internet connection, and I can retrieve mail
> from my ISP using fetchmail.
>
> However, I can't send seem to SEND any email. I've tried sending
> messages in nail, elm and mutt without success.
>
> Both elm and mutt say "Mail sent!", but it doesn't get to my ISP
> (because I can't retrieve it with fetchmail).
>
> Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?

Using sendmail. That's a very sophisticated application best left
to pros and use as a mailserver on a large network.

Chances are, your ISP won't even _let_ you run a mailserver.

There are 'sendmail emulations' around that are much easier
to configure and don't do anything but send mail to a real
mailserver.

I use msmtp. You can get 1.4.5 here:

http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=8757

That would probably work fine.

I'm running 1.4.9 and will be happy to make a package
for you and make it available on my ftp server.

(But google for it first.) You need the libssl package
for the encrypted authentication required by some mailservers.
That comes standard with 12.0, I think.

Tom

calhobbit AT
gmail DOT
com


From: Robby Workman on 1 Feb 2008 14:13
On 2008-02-01, Tom Newton <tom(a)server.invalid> wrote:
>
> I use msmtp.


There's also esmtp:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/network/esmtp/

We have msmtp as well (for 1.4.13, but that's easily configurable):
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/network/msmtp/

-RW
From: Tom Newton on 1 Feb 2008 14:50
On 2008-02-01, Robby Workman <newsgroups(a)rlworkman.net> wrote:
> On 2008-02-01, Tom Newton <tom(a)server.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> I use msmtp.
>
>
> There's also esmtp:
> http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/network/esmtp/
>
> We have msmtp as well (for 1.4.13, but that's easily configurable):
> http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/network/msmtp/
>

Excellent! msmtp is easy to build from source, too.

Tom

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