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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:15:01 +0200
From:      Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link -- Thanks
Message-ID:  <200503290215.01901.danny@ricin.com>
In-Reply-To: <200503290056.06112.danny@ricin.com>
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One more remark (for the archives):

if using mailwrapper, change /etc/mail/mailer.conf to=20
have /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp as the sendmail (and other) program.
Then restart /etc/rc.d/sendmail

Dan

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 00:56, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Monday 28 March 2005 17:25, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:49:47 +0200
> >
> > Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> wrote:
> > > Danny Pansters a =E9crit :
> > > > I already set my isp's smtp as smart relay in freensd.mc and did
> > > > make, but now my FQDN hostname is not considered cosher (helo)... i=
ts
> > > > desktop.homenet, a local name.
> > > >
> > > > How do I solve this?
> > > >
> > > > (also...contrast this inconvenience with every non-subscribed spamm=
er
> > > > being able to spam us if she has a colo set up properly...)
> > >
> > > 	You might want to use ssmtp. Since you're using your ISP's smtp
> > > 	server to send mail, there should be no problem if you don't
> > > 	have a FQDN hostname.
> >
> > A very simple and complicated HOWTO :)
> > http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/~clement/FreeBSD/send-pr+ssmtp.txt
> >
> > clem
>
> This is an excellent solution, much better than what I did before. I was
> actually editing the sendmail .cf file to change my FQDN and address.
> Messy.
>
> I can simply use my regular email address @ricin.com (at a hosting
> provider) too now. Both send-pr and porttools need a slight modification =
to
> also take the preferred email adress from .ssmtprc. To have the right
> <from> and be also recognised as maintainer by porttools something like
> this will do:
>
> --- cmd_submit.orig     Tue Mar 29 00:10:35 2005
> +++ cmd_submit  Tue Mar 29 00:36:17 2005
> @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@
>  COMMITTER=3D"no"
>  RUN_PORTLINT=3D"yes"
>
> +# Set EMAIL to what's in ~/.ssmtprc if it exists
> +if [ -f ${HOME}/.ssmtprc ]; then
> +       EMAIL=3D"`cat ${HOME}/.ssmtprc`"
> +fi
> +
>  # Parse command line arguments
>  ARGS=3D`/usr/bin/getopt hm:d:s:p:cL $*`
>  if [ $? !=3D 0 ]
>
>
> Thanks a lot, sane solution with little effort, just the way I like it :)
>
> Dan
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