[Info-vax] "SEND MAIL" doesn't send mail, mail stays in queue

[Marco Beishuizen]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, the wise Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax wrote:

> On 2018-01-23 15:46:06 +0000, Marco Beishuizen said:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, the wise Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2018-01-23 07:55:25 +0000, Marco Beishuizen said:
>>> 
>>>> Alternate-Gateway : 192.168.178.1 General-Gateway : 192.168.178.1
>>> 
>>> Is your ISP really using 192.168/16 private class C block addresses 
>>> for their IPv4 mail services?  That'd be somewhat unusual.  Or did 
>>> this mistakenly get set to the local IP gateway, and not to the ISP 
>>> SMTP gateway?
>> 
>> You are right this isn't correct. It's the IP of my modem/router. The 
>> TCPIP$CONFIG didn't alter it after all. I'll change the TCPIP$SMTP.CONF 
>> file manually and see what happens.
>
> Nicely-massive monstrously-huge staggeringly-large hole in the UI and in 
> the error logging, that one.  Basic testing at startup should at least 
> have flagged that as "this host doesn't look like a mail server" and 
> with an ensuing demi-blizzard of logging messages, after all.

Well, little victory here!: 1 email got through and got delivered. The one 
that had my own email address as from: address. The other two have the 
local system mailaddress and probably get rejected because of that.

So a few more tweaks and...

Regards,
Marco

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