I installed sendmail and have sent myself email messages which went to my ISP first. Suse has done a great job in using Sysconfig Editor via yast, just choose network - mail - sendmail. This is where I set the SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST to point to my ISP smtp server. Modified the /etc/mail/aliases file to send root and my mail to my ISP (don't want to keep it on the machine). Mike Sandy Drobic wrote:
Mike Noble wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 17:37 -0800, Mike Noble wrote:
Actually I hate Postfix and have used Sendmail for over 15 years. What I was trying to say was that maybe he has them confused. I did send the OP a direct reply (forgot reply to was not set to list) telling him make changes to sendmail. Could you post those changes here, just for the record? Even if I don't use sendmail now, I like to learn. :-)
One of the best places to information about sendmail is to go to: http://sendmail.org/
I was also hoping for a bit more specific advice. For Postfix the procedure would be:
servername: www domain: example.com
as root: postconf -e "myhostname = www.example.com" postfix reload
If you've got some strange setup where you don't want to use the hostname as HELO, you can set the helo name of the server with:
postconf -e "smtp_helo_name = mail.example.com" postfix reload
The default of smtp_helo_name is $myhostname: # postconf -d smtp_helo_name smtp_helo_name = $myhostname
So usually it's not neccessary.
I tried to find the information on the sendmail.org site, but didn't find anything useful within a few minutes. Do you have a more specific link for basic Sendmail setup including hostname?
To setup DNS for private address space, you can find at: http://sendmail.org/tips/private-dns/
Of course private address space was never mentioned, I'm just assuming that he does not have valid IP and that all internal IP addresses are being NAT'd to a valid IP address on the internet.
Judging from the hostname "www" that he used he is probably trying to send mail from a webserver using the local Sendmail installation. So he probably has an official IP (and hopefully correctly set up dns and reverse dns).
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