Relaying with SMTP AUTH....

[2bad4u]

Hi all

after hours and hours I have no more ideas what to do...
I want to set up a scalix-installation, to send mails over an external smtp-server.

some details:
smtp.isp.de --> the external smtp-server
imap.isp.de --> the external imap-server, where I want to receive mail (with fetchmail)
user@domain.de --> user to gain access to the external mail-server, and also user in my scalix-environment (my mail-domain is domain.de)

I really don't know how to set up scalix/sendmail to be able to send mails to "the internet".
I've read the wiki, 100000 of Forum posts, I asked google 10000000 times.....
but it is still not running.

What do I have to configure (sendmail....)
Right now I don't want to say what I tried/did, cause I hope someone can give me a step-by-step guide, what I have to do.

I would be really happy, if in the end scalix understands what I want


Greetings
Florian

[Shredder]

You want to set up a SMART-HOST.

Check out this from the wiki:
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=HowTos/MTA_Integration

It should all be in there.

Shredder

[2bad4u]

I tried that, but I receive an error

May 13 13:20:43 akserver sendmail[4843]: l4DAc9IQ004150: SYSERR(root): db_map_open: cannot pre-open database /etc/mail/auth/cl
ient-info.db: Operation not permitted

akserver:/etc/mail/auth # l
total 36
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 May 13 13:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 13 13:20 ../
-rw------- 1 root root 1275 May 9 11:07 auth-info
-rw------- 1 root root 12288 May 9 11:07 auth-info.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62 May 13 13:15 client-info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 May 13 13:15 client-info.db
akserver:/etc/mail/auth #


akserver:/etc/mail # l
total 200
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 13 13:20 ./
drwxr-xr-x 68 root root 4096 May 13 13:20 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1193 May 2 2006 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12306 May 2 2006 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1303 May 2 2006 access
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 9 11:07 access.db
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 9 01:54 aliases -> ../aliases
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 May 13 13:15 auth/
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 May 2 2006 certs/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 474 May 2 2006 domaintable
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 May 9 11:07 domaintable.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 723 May 2 2006 genericstable
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 9 11:07 genericstable.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13171 May 13 13:19 linux.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 921 May 2 2006 linux.nullclient.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2704 May 2 2006 linux.submit.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410 May 13 13:20 local-host-names
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1446 May 2 2006 mailertable
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 9 11:07 mailertable.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 342 May 2 2006 relay-domains
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 May 2 2006 service-nodns.switch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 815 May 2 2006 service.switch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 May 9 01:54 statistics -> /var/lib/sendmail/statistics
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41152 May 9 12:02 submit.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367 May 2 2006 trusted-users
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257 May 2 2006 userdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 May 9 11:07 userdb.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 441 May 2 2006 virtusertable
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 May 9 11:07 virtusertable.db
akserver:/etc/mail #


do I have to change the user - do I have to change the permissions?????....????

[Shredder]

Hmmm... That seems right. Maybe try deleting the .db file and recreating it as per the Wiki. It should put the correct permissions on it.

Sorry I can't be of more help. I don't know of anyone that uses SmartHosts that I can check on the permissions of the files.

Shredder

[jaime.pinto]

Too much information.
Just dnl comment the FEATURE line, as in:
dnl FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl
The ISP should let your scalix server relay email via the smarthost by default, since it's part of *their* network.
Jaime