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Gerry Doris wrote:
I've essentially admitted defeat on using the 400 P2 as a linux system too. Perhaps one day but not now. It got so bad that if I left the room for a beer it would be magically running win98 when I came back...and everyone swore that it was always running win98.
Life sure does get complicated doesn't it? I do apologise for making you feel you had to justify your position. I guess your story has taught me something anyway.
I have been using smtp with Netscape and xfmail for mail on the 486. Both work just fine through the wingate proxy. However, I haven't found a way to run sendmail at all. There doesn't seem to be a way that I can find to configure it properly. I even bought the O'Reilly sendmail book but it's too much for me.
I reckon the 'Bat Book' is only any use for full-time mail server administrators.
Setting up sendmail is just an intellectual exercise. I just thought I'd have some fun and learn a little more about how to use it. I just didn't think it was going to have so much fun!!!
And so is sendmail.cf. Maybe we should be looking at this new sendmail replacement from IBM... Have you already set up the proxy ports somewhat like I said in my last post on this thread, or are you explicitly telling Netscape to connect to a proxy? For this to work universally you need to do the proxy translation at a system-wide level like I suggested, and hide these shenanigans from the clients entirely (not all client software is proxy-enabled). In theory, _if_ your gateway software provides an SMTP proxy both ways then changing the default SMTP port number and defining the SMTP host where required as the gateway itself should be enough for sendmail's default configuration to work. Ralph -- rclark@virgosolutions.demon.co.uk Ralph Clark, Virgo Solutions Ltd (UK) __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ * Powerful * Flexible * Compatible * Reliable * / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / *Well Supported * Thousands of New Users Every Day* /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ The Cost Effective Choice - Linux Means Business! - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>