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Authored by: morgion on Aug 30, '03 11:45:29PM

For me, using gogeek_mail (added to the localhost entry in /etc/hosts) in Mail.app returns an error, but using 127.0.0.1 in Mail.app works fine.

I've used tomn's varriant, and added the lines to /etc/services, /etc/hosts, and /etc/inetd.conf, and set up my authorized_keys on the remote host.

running telnet 127.0.0.1 1025 returns:
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.

telnet gogeek_mail 1025 returns:
gogeek_mail: No address associated with nodename

I used gogeek_m as the service and inetd.conf names. The only change to tomn's method was using gogeek.org in the authorized_keys, because using 12.0.0.1 returned:
(UNKNOWN) [127.0.0.1] 25 (smtp) : Connection refused
Connection to gogeek.org closed.

Help?



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Send mail from outside a firewalll via Mail.app
Authored by: morgion on Sep 01, '03 03:43:16PM

I had to take it upon myself to solve this problem...

Even though I had made changes to /etc/hosts, lookupd (the prog that reads and caches the file, among other sources of info) wasn't configured to even read Flat Files.

The solution is to change the line in /etc/lookupd/hosts:
LookupOrder CacheAgent NIAgent DNSAgent FFAgent

The key: make sure 'FFAgent' is in the LookupOrder. Otherwise your changes won't even be noticed.



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