Re: [Nolug] running a mail server with a Cox account

>
> can you "telnet smtp.east.cox.net 25" successfully?

yep.

i'm testing a few changes...

i tried
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.east.cox.net')dnl
that didn't seem to work

but here is the thing. before i made any changes to the sendmail
config there wasn't a sendmail.mc file.

so when i type "mail" at the command line and then send a message
or if i do

echo test|mail brad@selu.edu

then that command doens't seem to use sendmail to send the message.
I did a man mail but can't see a way to change the smtp server to
send mail through.

....

when i read the file in /var/spool/mqueue/qfh7CGeYr04173

it says

MDeferred: Connection timed out with smtp.selu.edu.

But if i send a message to my cox address the mail goes through.
echo test|mail brad.bendily@cox.net

this works great

so it's failing on trying to connect to any smtp server outside
of the cox network. I also tried and i-55.com email address.
it didn't work.

So how do I get the mail program to send messages through the
cox smtp servers? Is that with sendmail?
It doesn't seem to be sending out through sendmail.

here is waht a failed ../mqueue/qfh7CH26f04328 queue file looks
like:

V4
T1060707726
K1060707786
N1
P30046
I3/3/110049
MDeferred: Connection timed out with smtp.selu.edu.
Fb
$_root@localhost
Sroot
Aroot@ip68-xxx-xxx-xxx.br.no.cox.net
RPFD:brad@selu.edu
H?P?Return-Path: <g>
H??Received: (from root@localhost)
        by ip68-xxx-xxx-xxx.br.no.cox.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id
h7CH26f04328
        for brad@selu.edu; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:02:06 -0500
H?D?Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:02:06 -0500
H?F?From: root <root>
H?x?Full-Name: root
H?M?Message-Id:
<200308121702.h7CH26f04328@ip68-xxx-xxx-xxx.br.no.cox.net>
H??To: brad@selu.edu
H??Subject: bradtest

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