Hi,

Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> [...]
> I set SMARTHOST to the correct
> address with a ::587 appended. But my ISP neverteless rejected mails
> seng by means of dma because it mail uses port 25.

Don't append the port to the SMARTHOST value.

> In the configuration I eneterd PORT 587, but that didn't help.

The PORT value is where you have to set it. If your mail still gets
rejected by your SMARTHOST, you are probably missing authentication
configuration in /etc/dma/auth.conf (or your SMARTHOST does not support
AUTH LOGIN).

> Strangly, when I do $ telnet localhost 25 I get connection
> refused. But when I replace dma with exim4, telnet has no
> problem. Is dma imposing local port 25 even though I specify my
> ISP's port to be 587 on the PORT line? Am I missing someting in
> the configuration?

You missed this little bit from the package description ;-)

dma is not intended as a replacement for full-featured MTAs like
Sendmail, Postfix, or Exim. Consequently, dma does not listen on
port 25 for incoming connections.

> [...]

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen