Hi,
I was trying to use mixmaster on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn today but I don't
get any email  I updated it with sudo mixmaster-update
mixmaster-update --verbose and started it with mixmaster. Then m) for
mail. to: kazaam@oleco.net (my own mailadress) and I choosed two
chain-links for this test:

c)hain: borked,cyberiad                     (reliability: 100.00%)
r)edundancy:   1 copies

d)estination: kazaam@oleco.net
s)ubject: test

pgp encry)ption: no

then I did e)dit and wrote something and closed this again with :quit!.

Now I had one message in the pool and made s)end message from pool and
it outputs: done.

But I don't get no mail to kazaam@oleco.net 

What goes wrong and how can I check what goes wrong?
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:18:53 +0200, anansi wrote:

> then I did e)dit and wrote something and closed this again with :quit!

you need to close with :wq , not just quit

anyway, I am having problems with the Feisty mixmaster too

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anansi wrote:

> Hi,
> I was trying to use mixmaster on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn today but I don't
> get any email  I updated it with sudo mixmaster-update
> mixmaster-update --verbose and started it with mixmaster. Then m) for
> mail. to: kazaam@oleco.net (my own mailadress) and I choosed two
> chain-links for this test:
>
> c)hain: borked,cyberiad                     (reliability: 100.00%)
> r)edundancy:   1 copies
>
> d)estination: kazaam@oleco.net
> s)ubject: test
>
> pgp encry)ption: no
>
> then I did e)dit and wrote something and closed this again with :quit!.
>
> Now I had one message in the pool and made s)end message from pool and
> it outputs: done.
>
> But I don't get no mail to kazaam@oleco.net 
>
> What goes wrong and how can I check what goes wrong?

There's the possibility that you mail simply hasn't arrived yet. Remailer
messages aren't "instantaneous" like normal mail messages are. How long
has it been?

You should also send more than one copy, and let Mixmaster choose your
remailers. A single copy may have been lost or got hung up somewhere.

If I'm not mistaken, Feisty installs the Exim "light" mail transport
agent by default. It may be that either you have no "sendmail" link (what
Mixmaster uses by default to deliver mail), that Exim is not configured
to deliver mail to local addresses only, or that because you're on a
standard user ISP account some mail servers won't accept mail from you
directly.

Open a terminal and read the 'man mixmaster' page. You'll see a setting
for "SMTPRELAY". The first thing I'd try is adding "SMTPRELAY
my.isp.mail.server" to your global mix.cfg in /etc/mixmaster and see if
it doesn't solve the problem. Note the settings for things like
SMTPUSERNAME and such, you may need to set those if your mail server
requires authentication.

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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:18:53 +0200
anansi <kazaam@oleco.net> wrote:

> Hi, I was trying to use mixmaster on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn today but I don't 
get
> any email  I updated it with sudo mixmaster-update mixmaster-update
> --verbose and started it with mixmaster. Then m) for mail. to:
> kazaam@oleco.net (my own mailadress) and I choosed two chain-links for thi
s
> test:
>
> c)hain: borked,cyberiad                     (reliability: 100.00%)
> r)edundancy:   1 copies
>
> d)estination: kazaam@oleco.net s)ubject: test
>
> pgp encry)ption: no
>
> then I did e)dit and wrote something and closed this again with :quit!.
>
> Now I had one message in the pool and made s)end message from pool and it
> outputs: done.
>
> But I don't get no mail to kazaam@oleco.net 
>
> What goes wrong and how can I check what goes wrong?  --

Have you checked the settings in mix.cfg to see what mailserver settings you
have in place? By default it will use whatever your base system is - I'm not
sure about Feisty Fawn, is it exim4?. I suspect your block is there rather t
han
with Mixmaster itself. You may want to use SMTPRELAY direct to your ISP.

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thanks for your answers!

It is now exactly 24h after I sent the first message and none of my
test-messages has arrived yet.

I tried to find a mix.cfg and finally found it. But it is hidden in:
./var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/mix.cfg and is just a link to
/etc/mixmaster/remailer.cfg:

/var/lib/mixmaster/Mix# ls -al
drwx--S--- 2 mixmaster mixmaster 4096 2007-05-14 15:23 .
drwxr-sr-x 4 mixmaster mixmaster 4096 2007-05-14 15:23 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      mixmaster   28 2007-05-14 15:23 mix.cfg ->
/etc/mixmaster/remailer.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      mixmaster   26 2007-05-14 15:23 update.conf ->
/etc/mixmaster/update.conf


But there's no SMPTRelay-var in it? And I checked sendmail and it is
installed and the path is alright.

here's my remailer.cfg :
# Configuration for mixmaster remailer

# If you change any settings please run /usr/lib/mixmaster/mixmaster-rebuild
# (preferable as user mixmaster) in order to rebuild abuse.txt, blocked.txt,
# reply.txt, help.txt, and usage.txt from the templates in
# /etc/mixmaster/remailer

# see mixmaster(1) for more information

SENDMAIL        /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi

# Where to read mail messages from
MAILIN          /var/mail/mixmaster

# Where to store non-remailer messages:
MAILBOX         /var/lib/mixmaster/mbox
#MAILABUSE      mbox.abuse
#MAILBLOCK      mbox.block
#MAILUSAGE      mbox.usage
#MAILANON       mbox.anon
#MAILERROR      mbox.error
#MAILBOUNCE     mbox.bounce

REMAIL          n
MIDDLEMAN       n

PASSPHRASE

BINFILTER       n
AUTOBLOCK       y
AUTOREPLY       y

ERRLOG          /var/log/mixmaster/err.log
VERBOSE         1

# Remailer name and addresses
REMAILERADDR    debian_unconfigured
ANONADDR        debian_unconfigured
COMPLAINTS      debian_unconfigured

SHORTNAME       debian_unconfigured
REMAILERNAME    debian_unconfigured
ANONNAME        Anonymous

# Supported formats:
MIX             y
PGP             n
UNENCRYPTED     n

# Maximum message size in kB (0 for no limit):
SIZELIMIT       0
POP3SIZELIMIT   0
POP3TIME        15m

# Usenet news:
NEWS            mail2news@nym.alias.net
ORGANIZATION    Anonymous Posting Service
MID             y

# Remailing strategy:
MAILINTIME      1m
SENDPOOLTIME    10m
POOLSIZE        25
RATE            25

IDEXP           7d
PACKETEXP       7d

PGPREMPUBASC    /var/lib/mixmaster/used-stats/pubring.asc
PUBRING         /var/lib/mixmaster/used-stats/pubring.mix
TYPE1LIST       /var/lib/mixmaster/used-stats/rlist.txt
TYPE2REL        /var/lib/mixmaster/used-stats/mlist.txt
TYPE2LIST       /var/lib/mixmaster/used-stats/type2.list

DISCLAIMFILE    /etc/mixmaster/remailer/disclaim.txt
FROMDSCLFILE    /etc/mixmaster/remailer/fromdscl.txt
ADMKEYFILE      /etc/mixmaster/remailer/adminkey.txt
POP3CONF        /etc/mixmaster/remailer/pop3.cfg
SOURCEBLOCK     /etc/mixmaster/remailer/source.blk
HDRFILTER       /etc/mixmaster/remailer/header.blk
DESTALLOW       /etc/mixmaster/remailer/dest.alw
DESTBLOCK       dest.blk rab.blk

ABUSEFILE       /var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/abuse-generated.txt
BLOCKFILE       /var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/blocked-generated.txt
REPLYFILE       /var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/reply-generated.txt
USAGEFILE       /var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/usage-generated.txt
HELPFILE        /var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/help-generated.txt

PIDFILE         /var/run/mixmaster/mixmaster.pid



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greets

one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to
give birth to a dancing star

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anansi <kazaam@oleco.net> wrote:
>
> thanks for your answers!
>
> It is now exactly 24h after I sent the first message and none of my
> test-messages has arrived yet.
>
> I tried to find a mix.cfg and finally found it. But it is hidden in:
> ./var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/mix.cfg and is just a link to
> /etc/mixmaster/remailer.cfg:
>
> /var/lib/mixmaster/Mix# ls -al
> drwx--S--- 2 mixmaster mixmaster 4096 2007-05-14 15:23 .
> drwxr-sr-x 4 mixmaster mixmaster 4096 2007-05-14 15:23 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      mixmaster   28 2007-05-14 15:23 mix.cfg ->
> /etc/mixmaster/remailer.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      mixmaster   26 2007-05-14 15:23 update.conf ->
> /etc/mixmaster/update.conf
>
>
> But there's no SMPTRelay-var in it? And I checked sendmail and it is
> installed and the path is alright.
>
> here's my remailer.cfg :
> # Configuration for mixmaster remailer
>
> # If you change any settings please run /usr/lib/mixmaster/mixmaster-rebui
ld
> # (preferable as user mixmaster) in order to rebuild abuse.txt, blocked.tx
t,
> # reply.txt, help.txt, and usage.txt from the templates in
> # /etc/mixmaster/remailer
>
> # see mixmaster(1) for more information
>
> SENDMAIL        /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi
>
> # Where to read mail messages from
> MAILIN          /var/mail/mixmaster
>
> # Where to store non-remailer messages:
> MAILBOX         /var/lib/mixmaster/mbox
> #MAILABUSE      mbox.abuse
> #MAILBLOCK      mbox.block
> #MAILUSAGE      mbox.usage
> #MAILANON       mbox.anon
> #MAILERROR      mbox.error
> #MAILBOUNCE     mbox.bounce
>
> REMAIL          n
> MIDDLEMAN       n
>
> PASSPHRASE
>
> BINFILTER       n
> AUTOBLOCK       y
> AUTOREPLY       y
>
> ERRLOG          /var/log/mixmaster/err.log
> VERBOSE         1
>
> # Remailer name and addresses
> REMAILERADDR    debian_unconfigured
> ANONADDR        debian_unconfigured
> COMPLAINTS      debian_unconfigured
>
> SHORTNAME       debian_unconfigured
> REMAILERNAME    debian_unconfigured
> ANONNAME        Anonymous
>
> # Supported formats:
> MIX             y
> PGP             n
> UNENCRYPTED     n
>
> # Maximum message size in kB (0 for no limit):
> SIZELIMIT       0
> POP3SIZELIMIT   0
> POP3TIME        15m
>
> # Usenet news:
> NEWS            mail2news@nym.alias.net
> ORGANIZATION    Anonymous Posting Service
> MID             y
>

Change the above to mail2news@dizum.com and try again.

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I'm talking about emails, this affects only newsgroups or am I wrong?

George Orwell wrote:

> Change the above to mail2news@dizum.com and try again.



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give birth to a dancing star

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:27:45 +0200
anansi <kazaam@oleco.net> wrote:

> thanks for your answers!
>
> It is now exactly 24h after I sent the first message and none of my
> test-messages has arrived yet.
>
> I tried to find a mix.cfg and finally found it. But it is hidden in:
> ./var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/mix.cfg and is just a link to
> /etc/mixmaster/remailer.cfg:
>

Did you see the earlier post about using :wq and not :quit!  ??
:quit! might have posted an empty message.

When you say sendmail is installed, do you mean that you can send ordinary m
ail
with it? Because that is necessary before you can use it to send from
Mixmaster. Otherwise ask again about SMPTRELAY.

You may be better with a mix.cfg in your own home directory, since I presume
you are using it only in client mode rather than as a remailer.  Even when
testing, only sending one copy is risking it just getting lost. Change it to
chain '1stremailer',*,'2ndremailer' and send 5. At least that way you'll kno
w
it isn't just getting lost in the remialer system, which happens.

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anansi wrote:

> thanks for your answers!
>
> It is now exactly 24h after I sent the first message and none of my
> test-messages has arrived yet.
>
> I tried to find a mix.cfg and finally found it. But it is hidden in:
> ./var/lib/mixmaster/Mix/mix.cfg and is just a link to
> /etc/mixmaster/remailer.cfg:
>

Copy client.conf to mix.cfg in that directory, or to a hidden subdirectry
in your $HOME named .Mix

> /var/lib/mixmaster/Mix# ls -al
> drwx--S--- 2 mixmaster mixmaster 4096 2007-05-14 15:23 . drwxr-sr-x 4
> mixmaster mixmaster 4096 2007-05-14 15:23 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
> mixmaster   28 2007-05-14 15:23 mix.cfg -> /etc/mixmaster/remailer.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      mixmaster   26 2007-05-14 15:23 update.conf ->
> /etc/mixmaster/update.conf
>
>
> But there's no SMPTRelay-var in it? And I checked sendmail and it is
> installed and the path is alright.

Right. You have to add the SMTPRELAY option, and possibly others
depending on your ISP's mail server requirements. Use 'man mixmaster'. it
explains everything you need to know about these options. If you have
questions about any of them by all means ask, but we can't know what it
is you need because we have zero knowledge of what your mail server
demands of it's clients. Often times SMTPRELAY is enough, so that's the
specific advice you're being given.

The fact that some sendmail executable or "wrapper" exists may be
irrelevant. Local mail transport agents like Sendmail and Exim often
times default to relaying mail to only local addresses... user accounts
on the single machine to which the MTA is installed. This is a
precautionary measure, to help prevent new installations from becoming
the dreaded "open relay" spammers love so much.

Even if your local MTA *is* configured to deliver messages to remote
machines there can be problems. Since your home machine is very unlikely
to have any sort of MX (Mail Exchange) record, indeed any real DNS
information at all, a lot of remote servers will simply ignore it. Again,
as a precaution against spam.

These are the two main reasons you should at least start out by
configuring Mixmaster to user your ISP mail account as it's SMTPRELAY.
You know that it works, and will be accepted by all other mail servers as
"legitimate". Once you have Mixmaster reliably sending messages through a
know good server, then you can start modifying and/or fine tuning your
setup and looking for alternate methods of delivery if you wish.

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well I'm pretty sure now that there is a problem with sendmail. If I use
mixmaster to send an email and if I try it like this:
echo -e "Subject: Test\ncontent" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -v
kazaam@oleco.net

I don't get any outgoing connections with watch -n 1 netstat --inet. So
I think sendmail doesn't send mails out of my machine which is
responsible probably also for the problem with mixmaster.

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give birth to a dancing star

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