[clug] Local Mail Howto

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi Keith,

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Keith Goggin <keith.goggin at bigpond.com>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Can someone point me to a solution to this problem?
>
> I'm running a home LAN on my Netcomm 3G9WB default address 10.0.0.138
>
> I have configured a second IP Address 192.168.1.1 and Subnet Mask for a LAN
> interface for my Wireless Linksys WVC54G camera default address
> 192.168.1.115. (I know the Linksys doesn't play nice if reconfigured to the
> 10.0.0 sub net.)
>
> The 3G9WB is configured as a Wireless Access Point and I can view the video
> stream on my desktop using a particular browser in a virtual box.
>
> The camera has a facility which will email me a short video clip when it
> detects any motion.
>
> So far so good...
>
> The problem is emails are not getting through, I get the following error on
> the Linksys log:-
>
> 05/06/2010 05:07:49 Send e-mail error.
> 05/06/2010 05:07:45 Motion detected.
>
> It may be the email facility doesn't work or more likely it may be my error
> setting it up.
>
> I've tried local addresses such as
>
>
> Send To:                user at local.network.name
> Show "From" as:    camera at local.network.name
> Outgoing Mail
> SMTP Server:        localhost (and I've tried 10.0.0.1)
>
> Any help appreciated.
>

You might want to set the SMTP server as the IP address of the machine
running
mail service (sendmail/postfix/qmail/etc.). Also make sure that the mail
server machine
is able to accept emails from 192.168.1.115.


Amitay.