Re: [nmh-workers] Reply to Ralph Corderoy

[wilson]

Ah, great minds do settle into the same groove. :))  as you must have
noted from my last message.

env | grep MTS returns nothing, under either wilson or root.

Oh oh, I'm embarrassed.  /etc/nmh/mts.conf, owned by root, has mod 600.
I changed it to 644, and removed the -server option from the send
line in .mh_profile-----and send works.

My mistake basically was after originally editing mts.conf as su
I didn't change the permissions so wilson could read it.

Please forgive me for overlooking that.  I am very grateful for your
help (may hope to have it again).

Stewart





On Sun, April 21, 2019 9:05 am, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Stewart,
>
>
>> I did your optioned send below, except I used -port 2525 and it went!
>>
> ...
>
>> What now? send -snoop -mts smtp -server mail.eskimo.com -port 2525
>> Trying to connect to "mail.eskimo.com" ...
>> Connecting to 204.122.16.4:2525...
>> <= 220 mail.eskimo.com ESMTP Postfix
>> <= 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
>> <= 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
>>
> ...
>
>> <= 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 2ECD314461D
>>
>
> Great.  So you need to edit your ~/.mh_profile to change send's -port
> back to 2525, as it was when you started.  You mentioned Verizon being a
> problem in the past, and it looks like it still it, blocking your port 25
> connection to Eskimo. https://www.eskimo.com/support/mail/mail-settings/
> says they support 2525 to workaround this.
>
>
> Once you've done that, you should find a plain
>
>
> send -snoop
>
> fails because it tries to connect to localhost's port 2525, but a
>
> send -snoop -server mail.eskimo.com
>
> works.  If so, then /etc/nmh/mts.conf's `servers' entry isn't being
> obeyed.  Either it isn't being read, or its getting trumped by something
> else.
>
> Does `env | grep MTS' show anything?  There are two environment
> variables, MHMTSCONF and MHMTSUSERCONF, that can alter whence the mts.conf
> settings are gathered.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
>