Sorry JFalstaff. I don't have the answer to the second question. It does seem that mutt uses (for Slack) the Pico editor, in which you can change the source email (sender) if need be.

I also gave up on Pine with the SBC account (I also use gmail and another POP3 account with Mutt).

Mutt just seemed to work. And I'm happy with it.

Hi guys, glad to see this thread is still active and you are still finding this Howto usefull.

Some good news, it seems that in the last few days Slackware -current has added Sendmail 8.13.4 compiled with SASL support!. So it looks like half of my Howto just became obsolete In anycase, I removed my custom-compiled slackware package and used the new sendmail-8.13.4-i486-1.tgz (as well as cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-i486-1.tgz) and restarted sendmail and everything works great with my existing cf file!

As far as pine not working but mutt does, I have no idea. I just tried pine right now and it worked fine with SMTP auth via SMART_HOST to my SBC account.

One thing I noticed is that it didnt say Mech=PLAIN (which is what my SBC has always used). So just doublecheck you have these two lines in your .mc file.
As well as these two lines in your /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf file

SiegeX (or any one of you Slackware/Sendmail gurus), could you please help me out here?

I'm using Slack 10.1 and the version of Sendmail that came with it (8.13.3) and all I want to do is be able to use that server to send messages to the outside world (eg. joe_bloggs@hotmail.com), instead of my ISP's server. That's possible, isn't it? I'm not sure what I need to do. Sendmail accepts the messages from my mail client (Mozilla) or PHP scripts I have, but the sending of them fails because of "host name lookup failure" errors. I haven't found anything that can help me with this.

I tried to go through your tutorial, Siege, but I got stuck trying to run ./configure on cyrus-sasl. I get the error message, "configure: error: invalid variable name: --with-saslauthd". This happens with both cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 and cyrus-sasl-2.1.19.

Like I said, I just want to be able to have a working Sendmail server, one that will let me email the world . Am I doomed to failure? If anyone can help, thanks much .

Post the section of the /var/log/maillog that pertains to your errors.

Also, if you are using slackware there is no longer a need to compile either SASL or Sendmail, just go grab the cyrus-sasl and sendmail 8.13.4 from a slackware -current mirror and 'installpkg' those.

Seems to me your server might not have its DNS set up right so it doesnt know how to resolve the hostnames to IP's

Here's one example from /var/log/maillog:

Aug 2 21:14:06 nick sm-mta[3928]: j6T7tRZE002429: to=<n@gmail.com>, delay=4+12:18:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=10026871, relay=gmail.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: gmail.com.: host name lookup failure

I don't have a DNS server on my machine, it's using our router as a nameserver (which is getting its DNS info from our ISP, I presume?).

So it's ok to use the packages for -current even though I'm using 10.1? I can just removepkg both the sendmail packages that came with my version and install the new ones then?

Thanks.

Give me the output of this command
Note there is no 'e' in resolv.conf.

Yes, the -current sendmail package as well as the cyrus-sasl package should work just fine.

resolv.conf contains:

nameserver 10.0.0.138
search lan

Im assuming 10.0.0.138 is IP of your router yes? In anycase whats the output of this:

Yep, it is. Output is:

Server: 10.0.0.138
Address: 10.0.0.138#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: gmail.com
Address: 64.233.171.107
Name: gmail.com
Address: 216.239.57.107
Name: gmail.com
Address: 64.233.161.107

Read this link http://davespicks.com/writing/progra...upfailure.html That may very well be your problem.

Also, one thing to note is that if you are on a residential IP netblock (ie you are using non-commercial DSL or Cable) then even if you get this to work, id say about 40% of your mail will be dropped by many SMTP servers in attempts to stop spam which mostly come from hijacked residential computers. For this reason, I use SMART_HOST which is explained in the FAQ.

Thanks for the link. I got stuck with this bit:

There was no .mc file in my /usr/share/sendmail/cf folder. There was a sendmail-slackware.mc in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf. I edited that and changed the line:

FEATURE(`mailertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db') to the one above and then I tried to follow these instructions:

cp sendmail-slackware.mc /usr/share/sendmail/cf/config.mc
cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf
sh Build config.cf

I get an error with the last line, saying, "sh: Build: No such file or directory".

Is it better just to start over with the newer version of Sendmail, SASL and use SMART_HOST?

Thanks again.

Yes

Last question: for packages that weren't installed when Slack was installed, they won't show up in /var/log/packages, will they? I installed Webmin with pkgtool and it doesn't appear there, so I couldn't remove it if I wanted to. I guess if I wanted to remove Sendmail after installing it from the new packages, I'd not be able to remove it. I can of course remove the Sendmail packages I've got installed now.

Yes, if you installed a Slackware package using pkgtools it should show up in /var/log/packages, check if the package contains caps (it should be at the beggining).

Thanks, gbonvehi. My new sendmail-* packages and cyrus-sasl-* are installed and they're there in /var/log/packages. Now I can go through the how-to, hopefully .