configuring sendmail to listen to port 25, etc...

zeb · 05-29-2003, 06:31 PM

I am starting a new thread as a continuation of this thread because the thread purpose has shifted...

I am trying to get Entourage to send and recieve messages to my user account (the account you would access with the Terminal command: mail). All from my local machine without using an outside SMTP. We have come to realize at least the first two steps:

1.) configure sendmail to listen to port 25 for outgoing messages when the SMTP within the sending email account is set to 127.0.0.1 (or localhost or whatever would be necessary to make sendmail kick in instead of a remote MTA)
2.) configure sendmail to recognize username@localhost and route the mail to the appropriate mbox at /var/mail/username.

I have previously setup sendmail according to the O'Reilly instructions.

Any thoughts?

mjones1040 · 08-30-2003, 09:21 PM

OK. I think I followed most of the previous post on this issue and ended up here.

I was able to get Entourage to work with my sendmail set up.

Now I can send and recieve mail to user@localhost. Yipee!!

Here are the steps that I followed to get this working.

I followed the directions in the last part of this article to get sendmail running on my iBook.

Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar -> Next Stop: Setting up Sendmail

There is another article about sendmail that may be of interest, but I did not read it or use it to get this up and going. That article can be found here.

Configuring sendmail on Jaguar

Following the "Setting up Sendmail" directions was enough to send and receive mail to localhost using the terminal. Getting Entourage to work was just a matter of installing a POP3 e-mail server as suggested by jbc in this tread.

I downloaded qpopper (a POP3 e-mail server) from http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/.

I used these instructions to install qpopper.

One more note. I am running Norton Personal Firewall. I had to open ports #110 (POP3 e-mail server), #25 (SMTP simple mail transfer protocol) and optionally #113 (AUTH) to localhost inorder to connect to the servers. It would not work without doing this. You could see the denied connections in the firewall's log. I simply opened these to localhost using Norton's predefined ports in the setup window. I left all other hosts blocked for now.

Voila! I restarted my mac and everything worked great.

Note I started from scratch. I did not do anything other than what I have outlined here.

Now this does not allow me to send/receive mail over the internet. I don't know enough about this to get that to work yet. That is my next project.

05-29-2003, 06:31 PM	#1
zeb Major Leaguer Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 457	configuring sendmail to listen to port 25, etc... I am starting a new thread as a continuation of this thread because the thread purpose has shifted... I am trying to get Entourage to send and recieve messages to my user account (the account you would access with the Terminal command: mail). All from my local machine without using an outside SMTP. We have come to realize at least the first two steps: 1.) configure sendmail to listen to port 25 for outgoing messages when the SMTP within the sending email account is set to 127.0.0.1 (or localhost or whatever would be necessary to make sendmail kick in instead of a remote MTA) 2.) configure sendmail to recognize username@localhost and route the mail to the appropriate mbox at /var/mail/username. I have previously setup sendmail according to the O'Reilly instructions. Any thoughts? __________________ ..:: Zeb ::..

08-30-2003, 09:21 PM	#2
mjones1040 Prospect Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 35	Using Entourage to send and receive mail to localhost OK. I think I followed most of the previous post on this issue and ended up here. I was able to get Entourage to work with my sendmail set up. Now I can send and recieve mail to user@localhost. Yipee!! Here are the steps that I followed to get this working. I followed the directions in the last part of this article to get sendmail running on my iBook. Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar -> Next Stop: Setting up Sendmail There is another article about sendmail that may be of interest, but I did not read it or use it to get this up and going. That article can be found here. Configuring sendmail on Jaguar Following the "Setting up Sendmail" directions was enough to send and receive mail to localhost using the terminal. Getting Entourage to work was just a matter of installing a POP3 e-mail server as suggested by jbc in this tread. I downloaded qpopper (a POP3 e-mail server) from http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/. I used these instructions to install qpopper. One more note. I am running Norton Personal Firewall. I had to open ports #110 (POP3 e-mail server), #25 (SMTP simple mail transfer protocol) and optionally #113 (AUTH) to localhost inorder to connect to the servers. It would not work without doing this. You could see the denied connections in the firewall's log. I simply opened these to localhost using Norton's predefined ports in the setup window. I left all other hosts blocked for now. Voila! I restarted my mac and everything worked great. Note I started from scratch. I did not do anything other than what I have outlined here. Now this does not allow me to send/receive mail over the internet. I don't know enough about this to get that to work yet. That is my next project. Last edited by mjones1040; 08-30-2003 at 09:25 PM.