mail configuration

Xeion · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 31

This might be a stupid question but..
I have just installed gentoo with qmail and the mail on the local machine seems to work, but if I want to send a mail out on the internet it does not work.
I think the bigest trouble is that my isp blocks mail-traffic that does not go through their mail-server so I need to configure qmail to send those mail to that snmp server so that those mail can be delivered.
How can I confibure qmail to do that, I have not found any documentation that describes that, or do I need another plugin or something to make it work??

indynet · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:30 am Post subject:

Im not using qmail, but if you have troouble so try postfix. There is no problem to setup smart host with postfix.

By google I found...

How to configure QMail to use a Smart Host :

If you want qmail to send all outbound mail via a particular mail server
rather than to send it direct to the recipient's mail server, then this
can be achieved with the smtproutes command.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

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Xeion · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 31

ok thanks, Ill look into "Smart host" configuration, difficult to know what to search for when not knowing the name..

indynet · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject:

Xeion · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 31

I have run into problems with this smarthost configuration..
I have a gentoo server behind NAT running qmail and when I try to setup smarthost or releying the ISP server rejects the send..
Have tried to setup "/var/qmail/control/smtproutes" as:
:smtp.myisp.net
But this does not work, myisp rejects the send with errormessage "553 MyHost.MyLocalNet does not exist" probably becouse MyHost.MyLocalNet is not a FQDN since MyHost in behind NAT.

How can I work around this, could I configure Qmail somehow? Maybe to use my gateways ip or domainname and forward a port on the gateway or could modifying my DNS configuration MX for MyLocalNet somehow??

The ISP does support relaying, could I need to authenticate against the ISP smtp server and in that case where do I configure that, cant find any good documentation describing this problem and configuration..

Could someone please help..

magic919 · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:06 am Post subject:

I don't do Qmail but you want to look for SMTP AUTH, as a client rather than server in this case. Client to ISPs SMTP server.

hegga · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 210 Location: Norway