[opensuse] Where to tell MTA to send through port 587?
Good day, OpenSUSE 10.2 Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel? My ISP has blocked port 25 for sending mail, but my web hotel accepts mail sending though port 587. I can't find anywhere in YaST's MTA module, sysconfig, or anywhere else to set the port number. Best regards :o) Johnny :o) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day,
OpenSUSE 10.2
Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel?
My ISP has blocked port 25 for sending mail, but my web hotel accepts mail sending though port 587. I can't find anywhere in YaST's MTA module, sysconfig, or anywhere else to set the port number.
Best regards :o)
Johnny :o)
I set it in the SMTP configuration of an app, such as Seamonkey or Thunderbird. In fact, as I'm currently at work, this message is coming to you via port 587 on my home ISP. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Good day James,
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
OpenSUSE 10.2
Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel?
My ISP has blocked port 25 for sending mail, but my web hotel accepts mail sending though port 587. I can't find anywhere in YaST's MTA module, sysconfig, or anywhere else to set the port number.
Mandag 01 oktober 2007 17:25 kvad James Knott:
I set it in the SMTP configuration of an app, such as Seamonkey or Thunderbird. In fact, as I'm currently at work, this message is coming to you via port 587 on my home ISP.
I'm sorry, I didn't explain well enough. It is the default MTA in OpenSUSE 10.2, which should be configurable through YaST2 -> Network Services -> MTA. I have successfully made KMail use port 587, because KMail's configuration actually has a place to put in a port number. But nowhere in YaST's MTA configuration module can I find a place to put in a port number. Any clues? (I need to send 40 personalised standard letters through a php script - I really would like to not have to send them manually one at a time.) Best regards :o) Johnny :o) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Le October 1, 2007 12:54:16 pm Johnny Ernst Nielsen, vous avez écrit :
Good day James,
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
OpenSUSE 10.2
Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel?
My ISP has blocked port 25 for sending mail, but my web hotel accepts mail sending though port 587. I can't find anywhere in YaST's MTA module, sysconfig, or anywhere else to set the port number.
Mandag 01 oktober 2007 17:25 kvad James Knott:
I set it in the SMTP configuration of an app, such as Seamonkey or Thunderbird. In fact, as I'm currently at work, this message is coming to you via port 587 on my home ISP.
I'm sorry, I didn't explain well enough.
It is the default MTA in OpenSUSE 10.2, which should be configurable through YaST2 -> Network Services -> MTA.
I have successfully made KMail use port 587, because KMail's configuration actually has a place to put in a port number. But nowhere in YaST's MTA configuration module can I find a place to put in a port number.
Any clues?
(I need to send 40 personalised standard letters through a php script - I really would like to not have to send them manually one at a time.)
Best regards :o)
Johnny :o)
Basicaly, you want postfix to listen on port 587 instead of 25, right? If this is the case, you need to edit /etc/postfix/master.cf: change the ninth line, which read: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd to: 587 inet n - n - - smtpd ^^^^ Do not forget to restart postfif: rcpostfix restart André. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
André Malin wrote:
Le October 1, 2007 12:54:16 pm Johnny Ernst Nielsen, vous avez écrit :
Good day James,
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
OpenSUSE 10.2
Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through ^^^^^^^
Basicaly, you want postfix to listen on port 587 instead of 25, right? If this
No, he needs to configure his local Postfix to send mails via the submission port, because the local ISP has blocked the port 25 for all residential (dynamic) ip addresses. So he is forced to configure Postfix like a mail user agent with authentication. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel?
If you're using sendmail you can follow the recipe here: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.39 Regards, Lew Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Good day Lew,
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel?
Mandag 01 oktober 2007 17:58 kvad Lew Wolfgang:
If you're using sendmail you can follow the recipe here:
According to /var/log/mail I seem to use postfix. I just use the OpenSUSE 10.2 default MTA and YaST2 -> Network Services -> MTA to try and configure the port. Best regards :o) Johnny :o) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
I just use the OpenSUSE 10.2 default MTA and YaST2 -> Network Services -> MTA to try and configure the port.
You need to edit manually postfix configuration. Forget yast. -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from RC1) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Good day Lew,
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel?
Mandag 01 oktober 2007 17:58 kvad Lew Wolfgang:
If you're using sendmail you can follow the recipe here:
According to /var/log/mail I seem to use postfix.
I just use the OpenSUSE 10.2 default MTA and YaST2 -> Network Services -> MTA to try and configure the port.
Sorry, can't help with yast settings, I always configure the Postfix config files directly. Here's what I can see: yast -> Network Services -> Mail Transfer Agent -> Permanent -> Outgoing mail server [mail.example.com]:587 Authentication: -> Outgoing Server [mail.example.com]:587 user name user password password That should give you the following output from "postconf -n": .... relayhost = [mail.example.com]:587 smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous ... /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd: [mail.example.com]:587 user:password You must have the cyrus-sasl package installed otherwise Postfix is unable to find suitable authentication mechanisms. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Good day Sandy, Mandag 01 oktober 2007 19:43 kvad Sandy Drobic:
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: Where do I tell the MTA to use port 587 when sending mail through my web hotel?
Sorry, can't help with yast settings, I always configure the Postfix config files directly.
Here's what I can see:
yast -> Network Services -> Mail Transfer Agent -> Permanent ->
Outgoing mail server [mail.example.com]:587 Authentication: -> Outgoing Server [mail.example.com]:587 user name user password password
That should give you the following output from "postconf -n":
.... relayhost = [mail.example.com]:587 smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous ...
/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd: [mail.example.com]:587 user:password
You must have the cyrus-sasl package installed otherwise Postfix is unable to find suitable authentication mechanisms.
thank you very much Sandy. Now it works :o) Also thanks to James, Lew, Carlos and André for your willingness to help. The solution is not exactly as Sandy outlined, but extremely close though. To others having this problem: Forget about YaST2's MTA module in OpenSUSE 10.2. It will not accept square brackets followed by a colon and some digits. Solution: First make absolutely sure you have the correct outgoing server (DOH!) Then YaST2 -> System -> Edit /etc/sysconfig -> Network -> Mail -> Postfix -> POSTFIX_RELAYHOST=[mail.example.com]:587 (Square brackets, colon and port number as shown) Then edit the first line of /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd to read [mail.example.com]:587 user:password Where user:password is the username and password the server requires to authenticate you for sending mail. If you do a postconf -n after this, everything will show as Sandy said, except smtp_sasl_security_options will equal nothing. But that's all right, because it still works. I messed about a bit because I had the wrong outgoing server, so if it doesn't work for you at this point, try running SuSEconfig -module postfix. If that doesn't work restart postfix with /etc/init.d/postfix restart Thanks Sandy :o) Best regards :o) Johnny :o) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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