Re: X question for upgrade

[Claus Assmann <ca+OpenBSD_misc@zardoc.endmail.org>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002, Steve Brown wrote:
> No error message at all, in fact I see all the lights OK on DSL when I send
> with "mail". It just doesn't arrive at it's destination. (I am sure of this
> as I tried for 3 weeks to make it happen. I know I'm connected to the 'net,
> as lynx browser working OK)

Then check the logfile. What happened to the mail?

> Works just fine under FreeBSD(sendmail), different partition, same machine &
> network. Both O/S are setup as "dhclient" facing a BB router which PPPoE's
> via DSL. If I nix the router and setup both O/S as PPPoE, same thing
> happens.
> 
> I should mention too, my ISP blocks mail send from "localhost". In FreeBSD
> sendmail.cf I changed the line DS to DSsmtp.myisp.com (under the comment
> about smarthost: may be null) to get around that.

Sorry, I don't understand the relation between 'blocks mail send
from "localhost"' (whatever that means) and using a smart host.
The latter gets around restrictions on outgoing SMTP, maybe you
should do that in OpenBSD too (see cf/README: SMART_HOST).