Remote Sendmail

[Tim Raggatt]

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:30:40 -0500 (EST)
>From: Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
>To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
>cc: linux-users at smtp.linux-sxs.org
>Subject: Re: Remote Sendmail
>Reply-To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
>
>
>On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Tim Raggatt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit of a newbie, so bear with me!
>
> I have a remote email account with my college and I want to set my computer
> at home up so that I can send mail through it. I've already managed to
set

>> up mutt to access it using IMAP, but when I send a mail from my machine,
> it has the wrong source IP in it (ie. mine, rather than my colleges),
which
> causes some mailservers to treat it as spam! How can I set it all up so
> that it contains the
>correct IP? (I figured it would mean accessing sendmail
> on the remote server??)
>
> If anyone could help, that'd be great!

I'm somewhat confused by your setup.  Are you using your box, or your
college's SMTP server as the MTA?  Do you really m
>an IP (address), or do
you mean domain name?  And can you give an example of the wrong & correct
result?

Here's the email I got back from the uni when I tried to send an email to
my uni account (from home, through my uni account). I assume it has something
to do with the error 550 "Sender verify failed"...


>From MAILER-DAEMON at localhost.localdomain  Mon Dec  8 00:34:30 2003
Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON at localhost.localdomain>
Received: from localhost (localhost)
    by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) id hB80YUlO004725;
    Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:30 GMT
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:30 GMT
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at localhost.localdomain>
Message-Id: <200312080034.hB80YUlO004725 at localhost.localdomain>
To: <raggatt2 at localhost.localdomain>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
    boundary="hB80YUlO004725.1070843670/localhost.localdomain"
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1928
Lines: 57

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--hB80YUlO004725.1070843670/localhost.localdomain

The original message was received at Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:30 GMT
from timbox [127.0.0.1]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<raggatt2 at cs.man.ac.uk>
    (reason: 550-Verification failed for <raggatt2 at localhost.localdomain
>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to t8.cs.man.ac.uk.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550-Verification failed for <raggatt2 at localhost.localdomain>
<<< 550-Unrouteable address
<<< 550 Sender verify failed
550 5.1.1 <raggatt2 at cs.man.ac.uk>... User unknown
<<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA

--hB80YUlO004725.1070843670/localhost.localdomain
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
Received-From-MTA: DNS; timbox
Arrival-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:30 GMT

Final-Recipient: RFC822; raggatt2 at cs.man.ac.uk
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; t8.cs.man.ac.uk
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550-Verification failed for <raggatt2 at localhost.localdomain>
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:30 GMT

--hB80YUlO004725.1070843670/localhost.localdomain
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path: <raggatt2 at localhost.localdomain>
Received: from localhost.localdomain (timbox [127.0.0.1])
    by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hB80YNlO004723
    for <raggatt2 at cs.man.ac.uk>; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:30 GMT
Received: (from raggatt2 at localhost)
    by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id hB80YMLt004721
    for raggatt2 at cs.man.ac.uk; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:22 GMT
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:34:22 +0000
From: Tim Raggatt <raggatt2 at cs.man.ac.uk>
To: raggatt2 at cs.man.ac.uk
Subject: hoho!
Message-ID: <20031208003422.GA4715 at cs.man.ac.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i

hosdfksdj hoho!

--hB80YUlO004725.1070843670/localhost.localdomain--