Thanks for the answer Zentara (And the other answers as well!) The followup question: Is it possible to launch automatically sendmail - q as root once a successfull connection has been made by diald? That would be power! Maybe this could become a feature in the next SuSE release for dial-up users? Nico
info@edoc.co.za wrote:
Hi,
I can dialup to my ISP using diald, and browse the web using Lynx.
Now I would like to get sendmail and fetchmail going, but am a bit scared.
My domain is hosted with my ISP as a virtual domain. There are a few others also receiving mail in this domain, but I do not want their mail, and would like to send from my machine as well. Sendmail has to act as a collector and sender for a few users on my internal LAN.
Will it cause problems if I name my own machine the same as my domain hosted with the ISP?
I only have a rudimentary sendmail setup going but this is what I have seen: I don't think it makes much difference. The best way to find out is to set it up that way, then go into /var/mqueue and look at in the SMTP mail headers. You will see that you will be called root@localhost somewhere in there, to distinquish you from root@edoc.co.za. So even if you called your hostname edoc.co.za, the real edoc.co.za will sort you out. Try it and see. If it gets too confusing, just change your hostname to something else, like info.
Is it possible for sendmail not to call diald, but to wait till a dialup connection is made and only then sending mail?
In yast there is a line for sendmail options, change it to -q -v and remove the -30m option. Also, set sendmail expensive = yes. Then when you are online, as root , issue sendmail -q -v.
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