That's exactly what you need to do. Since there is no reverse lookup on your local sendmail server, you need to send from a known SMTP as stated below. Tell sendmail to forward all outgoing mail to smtp.charter.net. I use Charter as well. This keeps folks like AOL from rejecting your mail.
<<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Nick White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:40:57 -0700 Subject: RE: Setting Up Sendmail > My DSL provider blocks outgoing SMTP, unless it is from their own > SMTP server. You may need to setup a smarthost from sendmail, to > forward the mail through your ISPs mail server. > > Try to telnet to the remote SMTP server on port 25 to test if your > ISP is blocking the mail: Example$ telnet mx1.redhat.com 25 Trying 66.187.233.31... > Connected to mx1.redhat.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 > *********************************************************200************ > 0*00 > > (to find out the mail server, do: dig host.com MX) > > Hope this helps, > - nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph A Nagy Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Setting Up Sendmail > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 15 September 2003 11:29, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote this in an > attempt to be witty or informative: > <snip> > > Well, sendmail is currently sent to localhost, but when I tried to > > send to messages via sendmail, they got bounced back to the local que > > as undeliverable (target domain unkown, although it does exist). > > > > Would you like a copy of the bounce message I get from my ISP? > > One thing I forgot to mention. Actually two. My ISP is Charter > Communications (of course). Also, I can send to the list if I go to > the web interface for my POP3 account. > > - -- > Wielder of the mighty +1 LARTsaber of Unsubscribe Instructions At > End of Message, the +3 Clue-by-Four of No Attachments to a Mailing > List, and the -4 Shield of No Spell Checker. http://joseph-a-nagy- > jr.homelinux.org http://mc-luug.homelinux.org/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/Zelunjt9jEvKYeARAjaJAJ4mgX/kihtUqmp1VEebuT7qul7GTgCggaPv > FK0A0W7dsj3sXxd/iOBp3xk= > =vBsQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
