On Tuesday 13 January 2009 1:33:45 pm Michael Walma wrote: > Bruce Harding wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 January 2009 12:52:26 pm Bruce Harding wrote: > >> I'm running a blog with Wordpress 2.7 and I would like have a limited > >> amount of users be about to register to my blog. The problem I'm having > >> is the verification email is not going through. Below is the error > >> message from /var/log/messages. > > Rogers almost certainly blocks outgoing port 25, the smtp port, so you > will need to forward the mail through rogers. You can either configure > sendmail to do it (don't ask me how!), as that seems to be what you are > using, or you can use a simpler smtp client if your only mail need is > for these verification emails, or you are the only user on your system. > sSMTP is a nice solution and it is described here. > > http://www.linux.com/feature/132006 > > I've used sSMTP to get error emails addressed to root on various boxen > on my home network to my one central mail server and it seems to work > well enough. > > Michael Thanks Michael I'll give that a try. -- Bruce Harding, Member: IEEE, SPIE, IACR Manager, Computer Books for Less 210 Bank St. Ottawa ON K2P 1W2 Phone: 613-233-7418 Fax: 613-233-6823