On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 02:02 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sun December 10 2006 11:31 pm, Craig White wrote: > > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.west.cox.net')dnl > > > > of course I am doing this from memory since I use postfix these days. > > Well, I guess I stumbled on the correct formulation, because the above is > exactly what I did, including removing the 'dnl' at the beginning of the > line, and, of course, using my ISP's mail server rather than my own. But, as > I mentioned before, it didn't work. > > There's still that pesky double-issue, too: presumably, sendmail is what's > used to email my denyhosts reports to me, and that has undergone no special > configuration, yet it works, and, secondly, this was all working fine under > FC5 - > > I think the identity question could be the culprit. I haven't gotten to > testing that, yet. Denyhosts is coming from 'nobody', which is an actual user > on my system - maybe that's the difference. I'll get to checking that... ---- Claude, I previously described the method to verify if identity is the issue...telnet directly to the smtp server in question and you can helo/ehlo as whatever identity you want to test. Craig
