I have hit a roadblock in the server setup, specifically wildcard DNS entries (to allow things such as weblog.burningbird.net, coop.burningbird.net, and so on), as well as sendmail issues and external email.
Everything else seems to be set but that sendmail is a showstopper. My hope is to get help from my readership, but barring that, I’m going to have to fork over the money to the ISP to get their help. And I can’t afford this.
So server move is delayed until I can get this working.
Update: The fees the ISP is charging are too high. I’ll continue to try and work this through on my own, with help from other webloggers.
Second Update: A little digging into sendmail and SMTP in Google, and a copy of another web server’s sendmail.mc file (the sendmail configuration file) sent by Sam Ruby, and we’ve found the problem.
The sendmail program listens in only on the localhost port, not the SMTP port, for security reasons. Makes sense if you’re not accepted external email. Commenting this out solved the trick! Of course, there’s a sign saying “Fresh Meat!” on the server for every spam emailer.
Still – – I was never happier to see junk mail in my life. And my yasd.com address gets way too much junk email.
Onwards.