Steve schrieb:
> In my example, NO, Sendmail and Evolution are on 2 different machines.
> BUT on the same Network.
> Sendmail is on 192.168.2.34 and the machine running Evolution is on
> 192.168.2.35

Ok, fine. In that case, you shouldn't need to activate
Authentification in Evolution at all. Sendmail should be
set up to accept and relay mail from machines on the local
network.

> With SquirrelMail (On the Sendmail server), I can see that email can go
> out and can be received on Sendmail (As far as I know, Squirrelmail is
> checking on the Email server..)

Squirrelmail does more or less the same as Evolution:
it uses Dovecot to read mail, and Sendmail to send mail.

> But just SENDING emails from Evolution, doesn't work out
> In other words, sending email from Evolution -> Sendmail.

Yepp, I gathered as much. So let's concentrate on that.

> At the moment, I am running Fedora, and I should admit, that my TELNET
> seems not available. :-( I working on it

That's a pity. It's such a convenient way of testing.

> Now, if I write : netstat -ant | fgrep :25
> tcp 0 0000:25 0000:* LISTEN

Strange. No dots between the "0000"s? If it looked like this:

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

all would be well. (That's from one of my mailservers.)

> But what I don't know, is how to connect Evolution to Sendmail.. there
> is something I can't figure out.

Yes, sure. We're working on it, aren't we?

> Here is my /etc/maillog
>
[...]
> Mar 13 23:24:49 mail sendmail[3207]: m2DNOnIB003207: [192.168.2.35] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> Mar 13 23:24:49 mail sendmail[3208]: m2DNOnYA003208: [192.168.2.35] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

That looks like it's coming from your client PC. So Evolution does connect
to your Sendmail process, it just gives up again immediately. I wonder why?

Have a try with Telnet if you can. The command is "telnet 192.168.2.34 25"
(the "25" at the end is important.) If you get a response like:

220 servername ESMTP Sendmail

all is well. Type QUIT and hit enter to disconnect again. If not, report
back the response you get.

If the Telnet test goes well (or if you cannot do it), set Authentification
to "no" or "off" in Evolution and see what it does then. It should either
send the mail or give a more ful error message than "connection refused".
In any case, please do report the corresponding Sendmail log file messages.

HTH
T.

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