[cobalt-users] Sending Mail From Home Through Raq4

[Michael <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all!

Was wondering if you could help me shed light on something.  I have a raq4.  I recently decided to try to send mail from my home using the server because I suspect prodigy.net sometimes fails and does not send all of my mail properly.

So I setup a personality in eudora on my home machine to use astrology-online.com as a SMTP server.  I send myself a test message, and it sits and sits till it says:

Contacting astrology-online.com (198.78.145.164) 
Could not connect to astrology-online.com Cause: connection timed out (10060)

So I search the list, and the cobalt site and discover I should put my ip range from home in the relay/domains section of email parameters.  I did this, no luck and the parameters menu never seems to hold it.

So I edit /etc/mail/access and add my IP range (the first 3 numbers, no dot at end) 

000.000.00     RELAY

example above

Then the makemap hash deal, Then restarted sendmail.

Tried it again got the exact same message from eudora.  This time I was Tail -f the maillog, and it showed no signs of "hearing" my PC trying to send it mail.  

Now what?  I have no clue what else to try, suggestions?   Thanks guys, always a helpful bunch!

Michael Thiessen