Subj : SMTP server name
To   : WxMan
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jun 20 2005 03:37 pm

  Re: SMTP server name
  By: WxMan to All on Mon Jun 20 2005 08:21 am

 > First of all, the problem is a mis-named SMTP server parameter on SBBS.  Whe
 > the sendmail service runs, it is attempting to send mail to a server that is
 > not accessible.  I need to know where to find the name of the SMTP server in
 > the Synchronet configuration and change it.  I've looked in the .INI files i
 > the /SBBS/CTRL directory, and at all the options available when running the
 > configuration utility (SCFG? can't remember and I'm not at that machine now)
 > I simply cannot find anything for changing the name of the SMTP server that 
 > BBS looks for.  I need to route outbound e-mail to port 25 of my proxy
 > machine.  In all my other Linux and Mac machines, I simply point SMTP servic
 > to 192.168.0.1 port 25 and they go to town.  This is what I want to so with
 > SBBS.  I THOUGHT that making the Wingate machine my "relay mail" server woul
 > do it, but it doesn't.  I know that it's there, and right in front of me, bu
 > simply can't find it.

This setting is the RElayServer line in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file. See
http://synchro.net/docs/tcpip_faq.html for more details on problems/solutions
with sending SMTP mail.

 > Secondly, is there a user editor utility for use at the Linux console?

Yes, src/sbbs3/uedit.

                                                  digital man

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