Work keeps progressing on re-creating the djwudi.com webserver. Last night’s project was setting it up as a working mailserver using sendmail and IMAP. Much progress was made, and I’m just facing one last issue that I can’t resolve, and if there’s anyone out there who might understand a bit more of this end of things than I do, assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I have sendmail and IMAP working for the most part — I can send mail from the server from the command line using the mail command, the server is receiving e-mail, and I can log into the server via IMAP using Mail.app from my G5 to check my e-mail in the account that I set up. However, I’m having no luck in sending e-mail ~~through the IMAP connection~~ from my G5. Every configuration setting I’ve tried just results in an error of one sort or another (either the server refusing connections or (null) errors after sitting and waiting for a while). At this point, I’m more or less stumped.
The steps I went through last night to get the mail side of things set up (so far) are detailed on my rebuilding djwudi.com post. If anyone could give me some pointers, I’d greatly appreciate it!
Update: With a little more work and some pointers from Phil, I got it. Rock on. Progress!
Just one thing, probably a thing you’ve already taken care of: did you check to make sure your firewall is set to accept incoming connections on port 25? As a side note, you can’t send mail through IMAP – sendmail handles ingoing and outgoing email. IMAP is simply a message access protocol similar to POP3; you can’t actually send email through POP3, either, you still need an SMTP server. (Thus the point of sendmail.) Lastly, it’s covered in page 5 of O’Reilly’s “setting up sendmail” article, so you may already have it set up, but you’re going to need to allow your G5 to relay email through your G3 using the /etc/mail/access file.
That’s all I can help you with for now, old man. If you need any more help, I’ll be online for part of the day, but for now, I wish you luck.
Bingo — between a bit more banging my head against the keyboard and your help, it’s up and running. Sweet — I knew there would be benefits to starting over from scratch. More and more progress each evening…