if you are using red hat use linuxconf to fix your problem.In the sendmail
basic configuration menu type your local mail server in the mail server
field and in the smart relay host field type your ISP's mail server
address.Now both your local and international mails will relay.
Khalid Naveed Khan
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----- Original Message -----
From: Philippe Moutarlier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: NOT FIXED : sendmail puts my machine name as part of the domain
????
>
> Well, all this is getting VERY annoying.
>
> The solution showed (well pointed to ...) down here does not work for me.
> My computer is a laptop and this solution assumes you are always using the
> same ISP and use it as your smart host.
>
> Also, if you cannot reach your ISP and try what is said there, the same
redhat they are
> talking about will hang forever at boot (I did this, it is very, very
irritating).
>
> I tried postfix, but I don't think it is very much easier to setup. At
least, when I tried it
> NOTHING worked : I could not even send a message locallly. It would stay
somewhere in the deferred or active subdirectories .
>
> All what I ask is : could someone point out to me what is wrong in the
sendmail.cf down there.
> and why sendmail refuses to masquerade even you have the
>
> DMkscable.com
>
> I use my localhost as SMART HOST : why would not this work ? Obviously my
ISP relays ok,
> since I am able to send this message
>
> Thanks
>
> Philippe
>
>
> Chuck Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Philippe Moutarlier said:
> >
> > PM>
> > PM>Somebody kindly gave me this advice. Here is the lines from my
sendmail.cf
> > PM>:
> > PM>
> > PM>
> > PM># Alias for this host
> > PM>Cw localhost saturne.robots.com
> > PM>Fw/etc/mail/sendmail.cw
> > PM># Virtual email domain
> > PM># who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading)
> > PM>DMkscable.com
> > PM># Smart host
> > PM>DSlocalhost
> > PM># Use this mailer to reach the Smart host
> > PM>DNsmtp
> > PM># Central host for local mail
> > PM>DHlocalhost
> > PM>
> > PM>
> > PM>but still failing !
> >
> > http://www.moongroup.com/c258.html#AEN302
> >
> > PM>Philippe
> > PM>
> > PM>BTW : is there any easier mail senders than sendmail out there ?
> >
> > postfix
> >
> > --
> > Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc. <http://moongroup.com>
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available at: wwwkeys.us.pgp.net
> > 5:24pm up 5 days, 12:54, 2 users, load average: 0.38, 0.43, 0.34
> >
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