Need help to configure sendmail

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Frank Peng wrote:
> I can telnet smtp1.sympatico.ca 25(I cannot telnet
> anywhere else except local)
> 
> helo familywebhouse.com
> 250 ...
> mail from: frank-tWQoongPzM9NivhThqwQo9BPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org
> 250 ... ok
> rcpt to: frank_peng_01-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> 250 ...ok
> data
> 354 ok...
> this is a message from my basement linux to yahoo
> .
> 250 Message received .....
> 
> quit
> 
> Then I back on to my yahoo account. I found a messge
> without sender infomation but the message reads " this
> is a message from my basement linux to yahoo"
> 
> If I send a message from yahoo to my linux box, it
> says  relaying is not allowed. 
> 
> I have a MX record like this in my DNS service:
> zone                               server
> familywebhouse.com              smtp1.sympatico.ca
> 
> 
> So this means they blocked out my sendmail?

I think so.

Where familywebhouse.com is hosted? Is it on your home computer? Do you 
have a permanent IP from Sympatico ??? Arin shows me that IP of 
familywebhouse.com (70.49.102.134) belongs to Sympatico but reverse 
lookup to DNS gives me the name Ottawa-HSE-ppp4102395.sympatico.ca. I 
can open both addresses in my web browser. I can not telnet you on port 
25. (I use istop - they do not block ports).

zb.


>>If that is so, you can do nothing. Simply, I guess,
>>Sympatico blocks 
>>port 25 access from anywhere to anywhere except
>>their own servers. You 
>>can only use their server to send email outside. But
>>why to use 
>>Sympatico ADSL when there are so many other
>>providers around and they do 
>>not do these stinky restrictions? E.g. www.istop.com
>>.
>>
>>Frank Peng wrote:
>>
>>>Yes. I am using Sympatico ADS and I cannot telnet
>>>anywhere 25 except local.
>>>
>>>So I have to find out Sympatico's mail server name
>>
>>or
>>
>>>IP to put it into my DNS server's MX record,then
>>>Sympatico forwords all email to my linux box?
>>


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