OT Sendmail and Motorola smartphones

[Alex Neuman]

If you can configure any other account that uses port 587, such as
GMail, correctly, it means it's not the flaky client.

I'd read the imported .cf/.mc file, check what's changed from the
defaults, document it and then implement it on the new .cf/.mc just in
case.

I've had problems in the past when I've trusted old .cf/.mc files
which didn't really work because of quirky incompatibilities from one
release to the next.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 4/16/2012 2:37 PM, Ken A wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/16/2012 11:20 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> Completely off topic - just curious if anyone has had problems similar.
>>>
>>> I've upgraded email servers from an old Centos 3 to a new Centos 6
>>> sendmail server. Just recently our company renewed it's contract and all
>>> smartphones were upgraded to the Motorola Milestone X2. These are used
>>> by our sales staff when they're out in the field and are allowed to
>>> relay through our servers using smtp auth.
>>>
>>> I have port 587 set up with smtp auth. I'm fairly certain that this was
>>> working shortly after the upgrade, but now smtp to this port does not
>>> work. It doesn't seem to matter what settings I put in the phone, my
>>> maillog returns:
>>>
>>> sendmail[2765]: q3GG1Gng002765: 70-32-205-105.unassigned.ntelos.net
>>> [70.32.205.105] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to
>>> MSA.
>>
>>
>> That usually means that the client isn't sending the authentication info -
>> user & pass.
>>
>> Do you have one of these new phones to test this with?
>>
>> You could turn up logging in sendmail -
>> define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `14')dnl
>>
> Thanks Ken,
>
> I don't have one of these phones. I told my boss it's like being a web
> developer and not being allowed to use a web browser.
>
> I'm kinda thinking the mail client on these phones might be a little flaky.
>
> The config level is a good idea.
>
> steve
>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>> I don't think it's sendmail because the sendmail.mc is identical to the
>>> old server's file.
>>>
>>> I can set up an account using things like Thunderbird just fine, but
>>> then I'm using our network, but I'm still able to use port 587.
>>>
>>> Originally the problem was with one of the dnsbl I was using. (Seems
>>> that our provider had blocked their own IPs in one of the spamhaus.org
>>> RBLs to protect themselves from spam and using that blocked us from
>>> using the IPs they had assigned their smartphones). I switched from
>>> zen.spamhaus.org to sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and that fixed it for a while.
>>>
>>> My main question is about the Motorola Milestone mail client. Anyone
>>> have an opinion on how reliable it is? Does it follow the settings I set
>>> on it and has anyone run into problems using this phone as I'm trying to
>>> use them?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any clues.
>>>
>>> steve campbell
>>>
>>>
>>
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