Since I don't use any mailer at home, I have removed postfix and have installed sendmail. This will allow me to see how suse uses sendmail (or modified from original), will also set it up to use my ISP smtp server as a smart host. Nobody will be able tell you what you need to do as each site is different. But at least I will have a better idea of what you need to do. 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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