Bruce have you had a look at http://www.newthink.net/2007/05/18/smarthost-authentication-with-sendmail/ I will be going through the same exercise in a couple of days. Let me know how far you get please. /Seb. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Bruce Harding < bruce [ at ] computerbooksforless [ dot ] com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >