[gentoo-user] local mail processing

[gentoo-user] local mail processing

[alain.didierjean]

I don't import mail on my machine. I still need local mail to be processed and
delivered. I emerged ssmtp & procmail to no avail. All I get is :
Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Unable to connect to "mailhub.adj.org" port
25.
Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Cannot open mailhub.adj.org:25

What am I missing ? All localy emitted mail end up in ~/dead.letter...
Thx,

--
~adj~

[gentoo-user] Re: local mail processing

[Nikos Chantziaras]

alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> I don't import mail on my machine. I still need local mail to be processed and
> delivered. I emerged ssmtp & procmail to no avail. All I get is :
> Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Unable to connect to "mailhub.adj.org" port
> 25.
> Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Cannot open mailhub.adj.org:25
> 
> What am I missing ? All localy emitted mail end up in ~/dead.letter...
> Thx,

You emerged it but did not configure it.

Anyway, for an easy to set-up local mail system, I'd recommend Exim.

PS:
You don't need ssmtp for local mail.  You can safely unmerge it.

Re: [gentoo-user] local mail processing

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 02 March 2009 16:00:43 alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> I don't import mail on my machine. I still need local mail to be processed
> and delivered. I emerged ssmtp & procmail to no avail. All I get is :
> Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Unable to connect to "mailhub.adj.org"
> port 25.
> Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Cannot open mailhub.adj.org:25
>
> What am I missing ? All localy emitted mail end up in ~/dead.letter...
> Thx,
>
> --
> ~adj~

port 25 is closed:

alan@nazgul ~ $ nmap mailhub.adj.org

Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-02 16:06 SAST
Interesting ports on 63.214.247.170:
Not shown: 995 filtered ports
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
25/tcp   closed smtp
80/tcp   open   http
135/tcp  closed msrpc
4444/tcp closed krb524
6667/tcp closed irc

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4.64 seconds

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] local mail processing

[Mick]

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On Monday 02 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 16:00:43 alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > I don't import mail on my machine. I still need local mail to be
> > processed and delivered. I emerged ssmtp & procmail to no avail. All I
> > get is : Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Unable to connect to
> > "mailhub.adj.org" port 25.
> > Mar  2 11:07:03 isba sSMTP[26810]: Cannot open mailhub.adj.org:25
> >
> > What am I missing ? All localy emitted mail end up in ~/dead.letter...

> port 25 is closed:

As Alan says you need to configure your ssmtp.conf and specify the port at 
which your mailserver is listening.  You will need to add something like:

mailhub=mailhub.adj.org:port_number

and perhaps 

UseSTARTTLS=YES

if your mailserver is using encryption (in which case it is likely listening 
on ssmtp port 465).
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Regards,
Mick

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