Mutt and Exchange
Sylvain Jeanneret
I woud like to use Mutt at job (we have an u$ exchange server) on a
Linux box. As long as i send mails inside our domain, every thing is OK.
When i try to send mails outside, the exchange server tells me : relay
not allowed. Is there a way to configure Mutt in order to send mails the
same way Netscape Messenger (for example) is doing ? Is it possible ?
I have no problem to send/receive mails everywhere with my Linux box and
Netscape Messenger.
I don't find any thing in previews posts from this NG, but my english is
not good and maybe i missed something.
Thanks for your help.
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Sylvain
Grant Edwards
> Is there a way to configure Mutt in order to send mails the
> same way Netscape Messenger (for example) is doing ? Is it possible ?
Your Exchange server is probably doing some sort of SMTP
authentication. You need to find out what type of
authentication is being done (POP-before-SMTP,
IMAP-before-SMTP, NTLM, MD5 password, ???).
Then you need to find an MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim,
ssmtp) that can do the same sort of authentication.
I don't know enough about Netscape Messanger to guess which
authentication method it's using. Did you have to enter your
windows password somewhere in Netscape?
> I don't find any thing in previews posts from this NG, but my english is
> not good and maybe i missed something.
Your English is fine. Way better than my Italian, French,
German or Romantsch. :)
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Sylvain Jeanneret
> Your Exchange server is probably doing some sort of SMTP
> authentication. You need to find out what type of
> authentication is being done (POP-before-SMTP,
> IMAP-before-SMTP, NTLM, MD5 password, ???).
Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
I will ask my Exchange's admin. But only in a few days : he is in
hollidays now.
>
> Then you need to find an MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim,
> ssmtp) that can do the same sort of authentication.
Conclusion : Mutt can not, right? I just wanted Mutt tranmit my mails to
Exchange which *is* (i think) the MTA, but can we say that Exchange
server is a MTA ?
Apparently, Mutt send mails via Sendmail. My real question is "How can i
tell Mutt to send mails directly to Exchange ?" if it is possible.
>
> I don't know enough about Netscape Messanger to guess which
> authentication method it's using. Did you have to enter your
> windows password somewhere in Netscape?
I give the same name/password with Netscape and with Mutt, so i tought i
was authentified because i can read my mails (with Mutt) from the
Exchange server.
> Your English is fine. Way better than my Italian, French,
> German or Romantsch. :)
Oohh, you know swiss well ;-) But i can tell you that not all swiss
people are speaking theses languages, only a very few of them ... and
not me :-(
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Sylvain
Pengbo
news:3DAC574D...@cifom.ch:
> I woud like to use Mutt at job (we have an u$ exchange server) on a
> Linux box. As long as i send mails inside our domain, every thing is
> OK. When i try to send mails outside, the exchange server tells me :
> relay not allowed. Is there a way to configure Mutt in order to send
> mails the same way Netscape Messenger (for example) is doing ? Is it
> possible ?
>
> I have no problem to send/receive mails everywhere with my Linux box
> and Netscape Messenger.
I have had this problem before I think and I might be wrong but I think
it's a sendmail issue and not mutt.
When the exchange server refuses to send stuff what comes back in the
error message?
I think it's because your sendmail on your linux box is sending mail
with the wrong FQDN. eg. if your linux box is called fred and your
domain is mydomain.com then your email address will be being sent as
when you really want
you need to go read the sendmail faq's (it is a faq) and lookup up
masquerading and especially envelope masquerading.
If this is not the problem ignore me and I will crawl back into my hole,
if it is we just went way of topic and you probably want to ask further
questions in comp.mail.sendmail
> I don't find any thing in previews posts from this NG, but my english
> is not good and maybe i missed something.
Your English is fine.
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Pengbo
When being chased by a hungry dragon, you only have to out run the
slowest person in the group... not the dragon.
- Unknown
Sylvain Jeanneret
...
> I think it's because your sendmail on your linux box is sending mail
> with the wrong FQDN. eg. if your linux box is called fred and your
> domain is mydomain.com then your email address will be being sent as
>
> syl...@fred.mydomain.com
>
> when you really want
>
> syl...@mydomain.com
>
> you need to go read the sendmail faq's (it is a faq) and lookup up
> masquerading and especially envelope masquerading.
I will try this way though sendmail makes me fears ... i just wanted not
use sendmail ;-/
Anyway, many thanks for your attention.
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Sylvain
Olaf Foellinger
Try ssmtp from
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/mail/mta/!INDEX.html.
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Olaf Föllinger
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Pengbo
@cifom.ch:
> I will try this way though sendmail makes me fears ... i just wanted not
> use sendmail ;-/
>
> Anyway, many thanks for your attention.
Not hard. It should be two lines in your sendmail.m4 file and a quick
rebuild of sendmail.cf. All in the sendmail faqs, they explain it better
than I can do here.