How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link -- Thanks

[Danny Pansters]

On Monday 28 March 2005 17:25, you wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:49:47 +0200
>
> Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:
> > Danny Pansters a écrit :
> > > I already set my isp's smtp as smart relay in freensd.mc and did make,
> > > but now my FQDN hostname is not considered cosher (helo)... its
> > > desktop.homenet, a local name.
> > >
> > > How do I solve this?
> > >
> > > (also...contrast this inconvenience with every non-subscribed spammer
> > > being able to spam us if she has a colo set up properly...)
> >
> > 	You might want to use ssmtp. Since you're using your ISP's smtp
> > 	server to send mail, there should be no problem if you don't
> > 	have a FQDN hostname.
>
> A very simple and complicated HOWTO :)
> http://www.cultdeadsheep.org/~clement/FreeBSD/send-pr+ssmtp.txt
>
> clem

This is an excellent solution, much better than what I did before. I was 
actually editing the sendmail .cf file to change my FQDN and address. Messy.

I can simply use my regular email address @ricin.com (at a hosting provider) 
too now. Both send-pr and porttools need a slight modification to also take 
the preferred email adress from .ssmtprc. To have the right <from> and be 
also recognised as maintainer by porttools something like this will do: 

--- cmd_submit.orig     Tue Mar 29 00:10:35 2005
+++ cmd_submit  Tue Mar 29 00:36:17 2005
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@
 COMMITTER="no"
 RUN_PORTLINT="yes"

+# Set EMAIL to what's in ~/.ssmtprc if it exists
+if [ -f ${HOME}/.ssmtprc ]; then
+       EMAIL="`cat ${HOME}/.ssmtprc`"
+fi
+
 # Parse command line arguments
 ARGS=`/usr/bin/getopt hm:d:s:p:cL $*`
 if [ $? != 0 ]


Thanks a lot, sane solution with little effort, just the way I like it :)

Dan