Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said onFriday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer house --which was some 8 meters (26 feet) long and 6 meters wide -- beforechainsawing through the wooden roof and walls.
"The man said he was just taking his due," said a police spokesman. "But I don't think his wife was too pleased."
Afterfinishing the job, the man picked up his half with the forklift truckand drove to his brother's house where he has since been staying.
So. I have sendmail working on that same bloody Fedora Core 4 server as before.
It works just fine.
It sends mail to the internet on port 25, just fine.
That would be, in fact, the problem, from a certain point of view.
After an incident with a user, a "test" installation of XAMPP and Mercury Mail Server, and 3-day stint on Spamhaus.org's blocklist because SMTP servers that helo "localhost" are not appreciated, I'm going to lock port 25 down completely, and open port 587 only to the proper outgoing mail server. This is fine. Before I do that, however, I want my server to still be able to send all the mail it's supposed to send when things go wrong with the RAID, or when the backups throw up on themselves, or when it's supposed to give me the daily "I'm alive, nothing is wrong, we have plenty of disk space, the heavily armed monkeys guarding the servers report no issues" messages.
So, I want to set Sendmail on the server to Smarthost everything, to the regular mail server, on port 587, using user authentication, just like it was a normal mail client. This is my problem.
... which appears, from the documentation, to be what I need, and then some. I've also tried with "U:USERID" in all three locations. Yes, this is a correct and working username and password, and the server does not require TLS or any other secure connection.
I then run makemap hash clientinfo < clientinfo, go to /etc/mail and run make, then restart sendmail with /sbin/service sendmail restart. It says it's shutting down correctly, then starting up correctly, with no problems or errors.
And from then on, all the entries in /var/log/maillog look like this:
Mar 9 17:05:17 FEDORASERVER sendmail[31097]: l26L0kkW001172: to=, ctladdr= (516/6), delay=3+01:04:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=7380945, relay=in.MAILSERVERNAME., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by in.MAILSERVERNAME.
Any suggestions for why Sendmail isn't acting like a good little MTA, just like Thunderbird and Outlook and all the others on the network?
(Suggestions of "Try Exim or Postfix" are truly tempting, don't get me wrong, but if you suggest those, please also include a link to a good, reliable FC4 how-to on setting it up for acting like an SMTP client that needs authentication and uses port 587.)