From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygport announce fails unable to find mailserver
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:37:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b932d639-68db-35c9-8e70-e121a6cffad9@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <626a5647-2771-d42a-d31b-68f00e43ebd1@dronecode.org.uk>
On 2020-10-24 17:50, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 25/10/2020 00:19, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-10-24 16:21, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2020-10-24 15:42, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> On 10/24/2020 4:53 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>>> Do any/some/many of you use cygport ...cygport announce to generate your
>>>>> update
>>>>> announcements, and does it work successfully?
>>>>
>>>> I use it. You have to set several SMTP_* variables in your
>>>> ~/.cygport.conf. If
>>>> you don't already have that file, copy /etc/cygport.conf to ~/.cygport.conf and
>>>> edit it.
>>>
>>> Thanks, already set up with SMTP_SERVER=smtp which is all I need from my home
>>> ISP connection for all SMTP clients (POP3, web, mobile needs user and password).
>>> Nothing else is required (yet)!
>>
>> Hacked out the perl code into a file and got it running and failing.
>> Added Net:SMTP() Debug parameter and set it.
>> Problem is ISP SMTP MX will not accept localhost.localdomain as EHLO/HELO
>> maildomain!
>
> Whatever you are doing it spamming cygwin-announce with messages which are
> (fortunately) being held due to 'Message has implicit destination'.
>
> I rejected all the held mails, but please stop.
Sorry about that; trying to diagnose, debug, and fix failures and content issues
with cygport ... announce; hacking without any real background knowledge of
SMTP, Perl, or cygport; still trying to track down issues with generated message
content: sorry about those that made it thru; I'll do my best to ensure future
tests are directed elsewhere.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-25 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-24 20:53 Brian Inglis
2020-10-24 21:42 ` Ken Brown
2020-10-24 22:21 ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-24 23:19 ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-24 23:50 ` Jon Turney
2020-10-25 4:37 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2020-10-25 16:18 ` Brian Inglis
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