On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:58:25PM -0700, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
>
> Well, all this is getting VERY annoying.
Sendmail may help build character, but also may result in much hair
loss as well ;)
> 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.
Well you can hand edit sendmail.cf, and keep lines for various ISPs,
with all but one commented out. Our keep several sendmail.cf's handy,
and cp the one required for which ISP.
> 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
Just my personal experience, but this has never solved any problems
for me.
> 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
I didn't catch the first part of this, but I find setting the smart
relay host to your ISP's mail server, solves a lot of problems.
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmail.sdf.bellsouth.net
#DSmail.isp.com
#DSmail.other.isp.com
Localhost here for me does not work.
> 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
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