Re: [nmh-workers] send fails

[wilson]

Ralph,

Here's the result of
send -snoop -mts smtp -server mail.eskimo.com -port 25


Trying to connect to "mail.eskimo.com" ...
Connecting to 204.122.16.4:25...
Connection failed: Connection timed out
post: problem initializing server; [BHST] Connection to "mail.eskimo.com"
failed: Connection timed out
send: message not delivered to anyone

> Was it the same directory that `mhparam etcdir' shows?
Yes, /etc/nmh.  But I edited it as shown in the mts.conf that I attached
in the last message.

Sorry I'm so slow.  Now I'm just writing and replying on Eskimo's site.
Also, nmh is great but very complicated.   Lisp is much easier!! :)
Looks like we are getting farther though, re the above error message.
Please tell me your interpretation.

Best,
Stewart


On Sun, April 21, 2019 7:35 am, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Stewart,
>
>
>> The previous nmh was 1.4
>>
>
> That's a big jump.  If you haven't already seen it, then the list of
> per-release changes in NEWS could be useful.
> http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/NEWS
>
>
>> I changed the port to 25 from 2525, but the connection there was also
>> refused.  I left it at 25.  mhparam now shows: -port 25 -alias
>> /home/wilson/.mh_aliases
>>
>
>> I'm attaching mts.conf.
>>
>
> Where did you find that?
> Was it the same directory that `mhparam etcdir' shows?
>
>
>> mts: smtp
>>
> ...
>
>> servers: mail.eskimo.com
>>
>
> That suggests to me that nmh will try to talk SMTP to mail.eskimo.com to
> send the email,
>
>> Also .mh_profile
>>
> ...
>
>> send: -port 25 -alias /home/wilson/.mh_aliases
>>
>
> and that it will connect on port 25, the standard SMTP port.  I can
> connect from here.
>
> $ nc mail.eskimo.com 25
> 220 mail.eskimo.com ESMTP Postfix
> quit 221 2.0.0 Bye
> ^D
> $
>
>
> But your original email to the list showed attempts to connect to
> localhost.
>
> What now? send -snoop
>
>
> Trying to connect to "localhost" ...
> Connecting to ::1:2525...
> Connection failed: Connection refused
> Connecting to 127.0.0.1:2525...
> Connection failed: Connection refused
>
>
> so I'm thinking mts.conf isn't being found.
>
> At the `What now?' prompt, try
>
>
> send -snoop -mts smtp -server mail.eskimo.com -port 25
>
> and we'll see if that gets further.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
>