Using ssmtp to send mails
Gerhard W. Gruber
notification emails to all devs. I have ssmtp installed on my system and I
using gmx as my mail provider, but I can seem to get ssmt sending any mails.
I always get erorr messages like "sender doesn not belong to logged in user"
or "cannot resolve your domain".
Can anybody tell me how I can write a simple script that can send a mail via
my provider?
I tried the follwoing commandline:
sendmail -f'spar...@gmx.at' -au<loginname> -au<password> 'spar...@gmx.at'
Test
CTRL-D
It seems that the problem is in the ssmtp.config file. There is a line that
says rewriteDomain. When I leave it empty I get the erorr message about the
domain and when I write some domain in there I get the error message about the
user.
--
Gerhard Gruber
SoftICE for Linux - http://pice.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/desktoptools
Alan Connor
<spar...@gmx.at> wrote:
> I setup a CVS server for our Doom 3 mod team. Now I wanted to
> get CVS sending notification emails to all devs. I have ssmtp
> installed on my system and I using gmx as my mail provider, but
> I can seem to get ssmt sending any mails. I always get erorr
> messages like "sender doesn not belong to logged in user" or
> "cannot resolve your domain".
>
> Can anybody tell me how I can write a simple script that can
> send a mail via my provider?
>
> I tried the follwoing commandline: sendmail -f'spar...@gmx.at'
> -au<loginname> -au<password> 'spar...@gmx.at' Test CTRL-D
>
> It seems that the problem is in the ssmtp.config file. There is
> a line that says rewriteDomain. When I leave it empty I get the
> erorr message about the domain and when I write some domain in
> there I get the error message about the user.
>
I use ssmtp, but no authorization is necessary with my ISP, and
it does say in the manpage that it has only been tested with
MSexchange.
Scripting for SMTP isn't really that difficult. This will send
a mail to a smart smtp-host for delivery:
#!/bin/bash
(echo HELO localhost
echo MAIL FROM: bal...@dash.com
echo RCPT TO: who...@whatever.nt
echo DATA
echo Subject: foo
echo
echo HI THERE SWEETHEART BIGTART
echo
echo .
sleep 3
echo "QUIT" )| netcat smtp.balderdash.com 25
exit 0
You just need to add the auth steps in there.
AC
Gerhard W. Gruber
comp.os.linux.misc with
<LTghd.14314$KJ6....@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
>Scripting for SMTP isn't really that difficult. This will send
>a mail to a smart smtp-host for delivery:
Thanks. I wrote now a python script which workes almost out of the box.
Alan Connor
>
>
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 02:07:39 GMT wrote Alan Connor <zzz...@xxx.yyy> in
> comp.os.linux.misc with
><LTghd.14314$KJ6....@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
>
>>Scripting for SMTP isn't really that difficult. This will send
>>a mail to a smart smtp-host for delivery:
>
> Thanks. I wrote now a python script which workes almost out of the box.
>
Not surprised at all, Gerhard. I know a pro when I see one.
> --
> Gerhard Gruber
> SoftICE for Linux - http://pice.sourceforge.net/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/desktoptools
AC
Sam
> Not surprised at all, Gerhard. I know a pro when I see one.
Sadly, you don't.
Beavis, which “pro” told you to use rsh for remote logins over the Internet?
(http://tinyurl.com/5qqb6)
Mark Crispin
> Thanks. I wrote now a python script which workes almost out of the box.
Why are you using your own Python script instead of Python's standard
smtplib module?
-- Mark --
http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Alan Connor
wrote:
<snip>
Sam knows I don't read his posts. Haven't for years.
(the bodies of his posts are stripped before they get to my
newsreader. I just see the subject and whichever one of his
aliases he's using at the moment)
Has he ever figured out how to get his newsreader to
output plain text like every else around here?
I doubt it. He's too busy wasting his time posting to people
who don't read his posts and don't care what he thinks.
Which is why he ends up talking to his own sock puppets most of
the time.
I guess he must get off on reading these bulletins his posts
occassionally inspire me to compose.
Sad.
AC
Alan Connor
<M...@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I wrote now a python script which workes almost out of
>> the box.
>
> Why are you using your own Python script instead of Python's
> standard smtplib module?
>
> -- Mark --
Please fix that broken delimiter. What you are doing is forcing
people to see you sig, which is rude and a violation of the
netiquette.
It should be "-- " which you know perfectly well.
>
> http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Leave it to an academic to think that he's above the law.
Or are you a janitor?
> Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
What an ignorant statement that is.
You *must* be a janitor.
Show me one scientist in the employ of a corporation, directly or
indirectly, that has ever discovered anything that would make
his/her employer unhappy.
You can't.
And that covers 99.999% of the scientists.
> Si vis pacem, para bellum.
A Latin sig. What a fucking snob.
AC
Sam
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:20:54 GMT, Alan Connor <zzz...@xxx.yyy>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> Sam knows I don't read his posts. Haven't for years.
And every time I make fun of Beavis, he replies to his own, parent, post and
reminds everyone that he doesn't read my posts: http://tinyurl.com/3g6ft
> (the bodies of his posts are stripped before they get to my
> newsreader. I just see the subject and whichever one of his
> aliases he's using at the moment)
Whatever you say, Beavis. Tell us again how you use ed to read your mail.
And be sure to share with us the latest gossip you've picked up from Bigfoot
(http://tinyurl.com/23r3f), or your that dominatrix that you visit
occasionally (http://tinyurl.com/2gjcy).
Kevin Rodgers
> Sam knows I don't read his posts. Haven't for years.
>
> (the bodies of his posts are stripped before they get to my
> newsreader. I just see the subject and whichever one of his
> aliases he's using at the moment)
>
> Has he ever figured out how to get his newsreader to
> output plain text like every else around here?
What could be more like plain text than, well, text/plain? Here are the
relevant headers from Sam's message:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
boundary="=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-3727-1099352702-0010";
micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
--=_mimegpg-commodore.email-scan.com-3727-1099352702-0010
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mimegpg
--
Kevin Rodgers
Robert M. Riches Jr.
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:20:54 GMT, Alan Connor <zzz...@xxx.yyy>
> wrote:
>
><snip>
>
> Sam knows I don't read his posts. Haven't for years.
That makes (at least) two of us. However, from here on, I
don't read yours, either. Plonk.
Robert Riches
spamt...@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
Alan Connor
Oh look! It's a troll convention. "Kevin Rodgers" AKA "Mike"
ad infinitum.
I don't read its posts. They are sent to /dev/null and not
stored in the local cache. This goes for any responses to
them according to the References header.
What I get in my newsreader is a mock post with fake headers
and no body, except for the first parts of the Subject and
From headers.
If you don't like what I have to say, "Kevin", why don't
you do something about it?
Or, you could eat shit, which is, of course, your only
real option.
Lot's of catsup, "Kevin". It goes down better that way.
AC
Alan Connor
>
>
> On 2004-11-02, Alan Connor <zzz...@xxx.yyy> wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:20:54 GMT, Alan Connor <zzz...@xxx.yyy>
>> wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>> Sam knows I don't read his posts. Haven't for years.
>
> That makes (at least) two of us. However, from here on, I
> don't read yours, either. Plonk.
>
So what?
Why should I care if someone I've never heard reads my posts or
not?
Tell us: Just how long have you been an idiot?
AC
Kevin Rodgers
> Oh look! It's a troll convention. "Kevin Rodgers" AKA "Mike"
> ad infinitum.
Can you explain to me (in private correspondence, if you prefer) why you
think I am this "Mike" person? I would gladly discuss your
misconceptions via email, if you were not so paranoid as to hide your
address in your newsgroup postings.
> I don't read its posts. They are sent to /dev/null and not
> stored in the local cache. This goes for any responses to
> them according to the References header.
>
> What I get in my newsreader is a mock post with fake headers
> and no body, except for the first parts of the Subject and
> From headers.
I am impressed. Would you like to share with us the configuration
and/or code that implements that?
BTW, since you haven't discarded my From: header, why don't you email me
directly? (It wouldn't have anything to do with the need to gratify
your ego in a public forum, would it?) You could even send me some mail
bombs, although yahoo.com and earthlink.net might not look too kindly on
that.
> If you don't like what I have to say, "Kevin", why don't
> you do something about it?
I generally don't like what you have to say, which is why I respond in
the newsgroups to which you post your drivel and forward your most
obnoxious messages to <ab...@earthlink.net>.
> Or, you could eat shit, which is, of course, your only
> real option.
Until I hunt you down like a rodent. :-)
> Lot's of catsup, "Kevin". It goes down better that way.
It's spelled "ketchup" where I come from.
Check this out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/p/pootersthe_66602850.shtml
Even within the realms of the often weird Comedy Lab strand, The
Pooters was a distinctly peculiar piece. Writer/performers Alan
Connor and Charles Skelton cast themselves as brothers who run a
deadly serious reading circle that doesn't so much border on the
bizarre as revel in it. The Pooters grandly interpret a wide
variety of undeserving literature, often imbuing their analyses
with dark, homosexual undertones. Whatever they say is fully
accepted by the circle. Astronomy expert Sir Patrick Moore
appeared as himself in a surprising but undemanding cameo.
Cast
Alan Connor - Alan Pooter
Charles Skelton - Charles Pooter
Sir Patrick Moore - Sir Patrick Moore
Crew
Alan Connor - Writer
Charles Skelton - Writer
Robert Katz - Director / Producer
Peter Fincham - Executive Producer
As you no doubt are aware, "pooter" is a mildly derogatory term for a
homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with that :-). Interesting
choice for your pseudonym.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Sam
> Alan Connor wrote:
> > Oh look! It's a troll convention. "Kevin Rodgers" AKA "Mike"
> > ad infinitum.
>
> Can you explain to me (in private correspondence, if you prefer) why you
> think I am this "Mike" person?
"Mike" is more likely related to "Sam":
http://angel.1jh.com/nanae/kooks/alanconnor.shtml#Sam
> I would gladly discuss your
> misconceptions via email, if you were not so paranoid as to hide your
> address in your newsgroup postings.
Beavis's email address is alanc...@earthlink.net. But it is just as well
that you didn't know it. Contrary to his assertions, Beavis does not use
C/R after abuse@earthlink's bitch-slapped him upside his head, he just
autodeletes all incoming mail, so anything you would've written him would
end up to be a wasted effort.
>
> > I don't read its posts. They are sent to /dev/null and not
> > stored in the local cache. This goes for any responses to
> > them according to the References header.
> >
> > What I get in my newsreader is a mock post with fake headers
> > and no body, except for the first parts of the Subject and
> > From headers.
>
> I am impressed. Would you like to share with us the configuration
> and/or code that implements that?
Yes, he's using slrn to read Usenet. It should be quite obvious that slrn
doesn't work this way; even if Beavis had enough intelligence to figure out
how to set up slrn's killfile.
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Where "years" is in the same idiosyncratic system of measurements as the
"days" in "killfiled for 90 days" is.
<URL:http://angel.1jh.com./nanae/kooks/alanconnor.shtml#PriorOffences>
<URL:http://angel.1jh.com./nanae/kooks/alanconnor.shtml#KillfiledFor>
AC> the bodies of his posts are stripped before they get to my newsreader.
<URL:http://angel.1jh.com./nanae/kooks/alanconnor.shtml#MrEd>
AC> Has he ever figured out how to get his newsreader to output
AC> plain text like every else around here?
KR> What could be more like plain text than, well, text/plain?
You're missing an important piece of information, Kevin.
<URL:http://angel.1jh.com./nanae/kooks/alanconnor.shtml#Sam>
Have you been pointed in the direction of elightenment enough, now?
Alan Connor
Here are the first two paragraphs from this site's home page:
<quote>
Well, hello there! I'm Angelissa, your hostess in my little slice
of heaven!
As you can see, I am still wearing my panties here, but there
are places on this site where they will be gone, mainly in
the picture gallery. If you are a minor or are disturbed by
displays of nudity or sexual acts, please avoid any parts that
are labelled NC-17.
</quote>
http://angel.1jh.com./home.shtml
Nice job on my page. I'm flattered.
I hope you aren't harassing any of those people that you think
are me. That would be really unfortunate and quite unethical.
Not that you seem to even know what "ethical" means. I just
thought I should mention it. Hope springs eternal.
AC
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Alan Connor
P.S.
You have been harassing me for well over a year now.
It hasn't kept me from posting anything that I feel like
posting.
It hasn't chased away anyone that I care to communicate with.
Challenge-Responses are becoming more and more common, currently
being included in the standard spamfighting tools offered
to every Earthlink customer, one of the largest ISPs on the
planet. And many lesser ones have adopted C-Rs too.
I am still using my little program and advertising it in
my sig, as below.
Just when are you going to pull your head from your ass
and accept the obvious fact that you have failed?
Say. Does anyone know what happenned to Ben Finney?
Ben Finney <bignose-h...@and-benfinney-does-too.id.au>
He truly hates C-Rs and was very active on the Usenet, but just
vanished a few months ago.
Here's his last post:
<quote>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
From: Ben Finney <bignose-h...@and-benfinney-does-too.id.au>
Subject: Re: file.close()
References: <edITa.131868$Ph3.17333@sccrnsc04> <3F1F5297...@alcyone.com>
Bcc: bignose
Message-ID: <slrnbhukr8.13c.b...@iris.polar.local>
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux)
NNTP-Posting-Host: eth595.vic.adsl.internode.on.net
Date: 24 Jul 2003 13:02:57 +0950
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Lines: 16
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:29:27 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
>> is what i'm doing is overkill?
>
> Use of external resources -- which should be released as soon as
> you're done with them -- are best done in try/finally clauses.
It seems that nesting the 'try' clauses doesn't scale well. What if
fifty files are opened? Must the nesting level of the 'try' clauses be
fifty also, to close them promptly?
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s. keeling
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:01:47 -0700, Kevin Rodgers <ihs_...@yahoo.com>:
> Alan Connor wrote:
> > Oh look! It's a troll convention. "Kevin Rodgers" AKA "Mike"
> > ad infinitum.
>
> Can you explain to me (in private correspondence, if you prefer) why you
Same to you if you can explain to me why anyone replies to AC's
ravings. AC == troll. AC == net.kook. Why bother? Do you also
enjoy poking sticks in your eyes?
killfile him and ignore his existence. Why bother trying to change
his mind or correct his ravings? It won't happen. Besides, surely
noone with a couple of brain cells to rub together believes his
ravings, do they?
Meanwhile, we're out here clicking on interesting looking subject
lines, only to find it's yet another AC poisoned thread. It's
annoying, possibly even more than AC is. We can easily avoid his
drivel.
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