Relaying mail over Rogers

[Paul Mora]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 14:42, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote:

> 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)"

This is because the Rogers SMTP server requires you to log in before
sending the mail.  You will have to configure SMTP AUTH under Postfix. 
Search Google for "smtp auth postfix" to find lots of info on how to get
this working.  Depending on your distribution and how they compiled
Postfix, you may have to rebuild/recompile it with SASL support in it. 
I once tried to do this, but gave up for an easier solution.  I don't
use Rogers SMTP as a relay; I just have my Linux box do normal DNS
lookups and connect directly to whomever I'm trying to send mail to.

Mind you, this probably works because my machine's IP resolves to my
personal domain (via dyndns).

> 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)"

Pretty normal response.  No one allows relaying to hosts not in the
local domain.

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

Why not just use your Linux box to send the mail directly to the
recipients?  Rogers doesn't block outbound/inbound SMTP (unlike
Sympatico).

pm

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