Topic: Sending Email Through your ISP's Email Server

[gbaird]

I have been using SME 6.5rc1 for awhile and it works

I have not had any problems with 6.5 and 7.0 might take some time to get the bugs out and I don't want to give up Dmays great contrib bachup to workstation

anyway I use SBC and only did the following to make it work


/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy status enabled
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Userid youruserid - needs to be complete ie: username@sbcglobal.net
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Passwd yourpassword
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set SMTPSmartHost smtp.sbc.yahoo.com
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

I did this one line at a time with the above commands

Hope this helps

[CharlieBrady]

I check /var/qmail/control/smtproutes, which has the following entry
:smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com

This doesn't make sense -as I understand it- the entry should be
:127.0.0.1:26
to forward all remote bound mail to the smtp-auth-proxy, which then forwards to smpt.sbcglobal.yahoo.com. sbcglobal in smtproutes would cause qmail to directly try to comunicate with that server, which bypasses smtp-auth-proxy!

Correct. The reason you are seeing this is that you haven't enabled the auth proxy. Follow the recipe given in the most recent post in this thread, and that will be corrected.

[delineate]

I've figured out my problem, which I posted above. Turns out it is self inflicted
Originaly was running 6.01 and, being desperate, followed instructions here:
 http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/OutboundSMTPAuth
for an different solution to SMTP Authentication, called OutboundSMTPAuth. It didn't work, so I migrated to a new server running 6.5RC2
But... a custom template from OutboundSMTPAuth came along with my restore, which was overriding the default template. So if you have the problems I described above, it may be that you have and need to delete the following file:
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/var/qmail/control/smtproutes/20SMTPSmartHost
Then update:
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

Working as advertised now!