SID-00953: DEBIAN EMAIL

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.0	Perl version:	Perl
Category:	CategoryEmail	Server OS:	Debian Stable	Last update:	15 years ago

I first built Twiki on Windows XP. It ran horribly slow, so I am now transferring everything to VMWare. I was able to transfer all of my pages successfully, however, I am having trouble getting the email working. I followed http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiVMDebianStable#MTA and I never receive an email when I test it in that section. Even starting from scratch w/out importing all my data I cannot get it to work. Is there a step missing, like downloading sendmail? I got the email setup working previously on the SMTP Configuration on the Windows version and I put that IP address as the smarthost. Please help.

-- TeresaStocker - 2010-08-23

Discussion and Answer

I have come to the conclusion that it is trying to use NET::SMTP when it needs to be using sendmail. In my Configuration I set

MailProgram = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oeq

and in my TwikiPreferences:

Set MAILPROGRAM = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oeq Set SMTPMAILHOST =

However, it is still not working but I think I'm getting closer. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

-- TeresaStocker - 2010-08-25

If it helps, when I go to reset a password the error says

ERROR Can't send mail using Net::SMTP. 5.7.1 Unable to relay Too many failures sending mail %PARAM2% %PARAM3% %PARAM4%

And it's not because my SMTP server is blocking it because the email works fine on Windows XP using the same server. And if I put an invalid SMTP Mailhost it says cannot connect - so it's connecting!

-- TeresaStocker - 2010-08-25

Please help.. I cannot use this faster version of Twiki if I cannot get the email to work. It only takes 5 minutes to setup the debian version.

Here is my log!

1Oofin-0000Le-3y <= root@localhostPLEASENOSPAM.localdomain U=root P=local S=319 1Oofin-0000Le-3y ** tstocker@mydomainPLEASENOSPAM.net R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<tstocker@mydomain.net>: host mymachine.mycompany.corp.mydomain.net [172.##.#.#]: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay 1OofjJ-0000Lh-Jx <= <> R=1Oofin-0000Le-3y U=Debian-exim P=local S=1314 1Oofin-0000Le-3y Completed 1OofjJ-0000Lh-Jx ** user@mydomainPLEASENOSPAM.net <root@localhost.localdomain> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<user@mydomain.net>: host mymachine.mycompany.corp.mydomain.net [172.23.8.6]: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay 1OofjJ-0000Lh-Jx Frozen (delivery error message)

-- TeresaStocker - 2010-08-26

OK, for anyone who ever wants to know why you would get this error message. It has to do with network settings. Thanks network administrator. We had to setup a custom smtp relay connector after setting it to a static ip address.

-- TeresaStocker - 2010-08-26

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