Relaying mail over Rogers

[Dmitri Vassilenko]

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Note: Tried sending via Gmane. Doesn't seem to work. Trying via normal
ML. :)

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Hi, all!

I'm trying to switch from MTB to Postfix/Procmail/Bogofilter/Mutt
combination to read my mail. I've found several useful guides on the net
that helped me get started. But today I've encountered what probably is
a Rogers-specific problem, so I thought maybe someone here has
experience with this.

I'm trying to relay my mail with postfix over
ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com, which results in errors. :(

In /etc/postfix/main.cf, I have "myhostname" set to "oasis.local", which
is my machine name plus a made-up TLD. "mydomain" is just "local". I
think the problem lies here, but I'm not sure. "relayhost" is
"smtp.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com".

In my .muttrc, if I have "set from = <myreal-BV/SctExNYOTkO8mciVlQg at public.gmane.org>", and if
I'm sending email to myself, I get the following response from the
Rogers Postmaster:

"host smtp.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com[66.185.95.99] said: 553 Due to a
small error in your Email settings, you are currently unable to send
Email. To quickly fix this, please visit the Transition Website at
http://rogershelp.com/smtp to access automatic tools and instructions to
fix this error. (in reply to end of DATA command)"

If I send email to an address with another domain, I get this:

"host smtp.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com[66.185.95.99] said: 550 relaying
mail to anotherdomain.com is not allowed (in reply to RCPT TO command)"

If I comment out "set from = <myreal-BV/SctExNYOTkO8mciVlQg at public.gmane.org>" from .muttrc,
the mail gets sent, but when it arrives, the "From" field is wrong. It
becomes <my username on my Linux machine>@<my box's local
hostname>.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com where it should simply be my real
email address.

Does anyone have an idea what's going on here?

I could work around this by simply adding a "Reply-To:" header, but I'd
rather avoid hacks if there's a simpler solution.

Thanks for any help!

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Dmitri Vassilenko

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