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January 08, 2009, 07:53:17 PM

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We have a website with webs4christ as our ISP. The url is www.villagepca.org. We also have a 3rd party bulletin board made by discusware http://www.villagepca.org/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi. I'm trying to set-up the bulletin board to email members when someone posts something to the bulletin board. With our previous ISP, we did this by putting "smtp.registeredsite.com" in the Net::SMTP option in the bulletin board (admin screen). For webs4christ, it looks like I need to use "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" but that doesn't seem to work. Is there an smtp address I should use like our old ISP? webs4christ directed me to go to you for support.
Thanks,
Roy

Quote from: rcosta on May 18, 2005, 10:56:37 AM

We are not familiar with the software, but if you are trying to use your domain's SMTP functions you will set it to smtp through mail.yourdomainname.extension.

I apologize if the chat techs directed you here. They should have instructed you to complete a trouble ticket so they could escalate it to one of the admins. Chat can not be escalated since there is no trackable record of it.

But, on the other hand, these forums are a great way to get questions answered by a wide variety of people with different technical backgrounds.

Peace

Wolf

I tried that: mail.villagepca.org. Here's what I got:

[3] Error sending data to [rcosta@comcast.net] mail.villagepca.org: alphaone-tech.com (localhost.localdomain) [70.85.82.84] is currently not permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on in your email client.

I think I solved my own problem -- I ran CGI wrapper and it seems to work now -- I'm guessing it had to do with r/w permissions.

Quote from: rcosta on May 18, 2005, 07:10:45 PM

I think I solved my own problem -- I ran CGI wrapper and it seems to work now -- I'm guessing it had to do with r/w permissions.

Hi Roy, I am not familiar with Discusware's CGI wrapper, but I am glad that worked for you. My assumption is, if CGI wrapper allowed the SMTP function to work, that the wrapper causes the sendmail to identify itself as being run by your user name.

SMTP does require authentication on all of our servers. If it were set up otherwise we would have a huge security hole that would allow sp^mmers to send out mail through the server without really having an account with us. This would cause the server to very quickly be blacklisted in all the sp^m databases. Heck, even allowing relays can get you blacklisted.

Avoiding blacklisting is difficult as it is - one of our servers is currently listed with 3 databases and AOL simply because one account sent out their newsletter with an ambiguous subject title and several receivers did not recognize the sender or the title and erroneously reported it as sp^m.

peace

Wolf