hi,
There is script called install-sendmail which asks you lot of questions
and configures sendmail/fetchmail on ur system. search for it in freshmeat.net
HTH,
Raju
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:17:40AM +0800, Gregory Hosler
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> I have, what seems to me, to be a common setup.
>
> I have a home linux box (and a local home lan).
> My box has a local name, but no domain name. I get my incoming mail from
> other sources (mostly uucp, but it could also be ipop). The point is that I
> don't need sendmail for incoming mail services (except for local delivery).
>
> I would like to set up sendmail for outgoing mail services though. My ISP's
> sendmail is an open relay, and if I use that as my MTA's delivery agent,
> there are some places I mail to that will get rejected because the mail
> comes from an open relay.
>
> I used to use smail on my old linux box (running rh 4.1), and it is this box
> that is getting upgraded to rh6.2. I decided to use linuxconf to configure
> sendmail, but for the life of me can't seem to figure some things out.
>
> it seems that sendmail really want a domain name. I suppose that this is for
> incoming mail, but 1) I do not have a domain name, 2) I don't feel like lying
> and making one up (mostly because I am unsure of the consequences of telling
> that particular lie to sendmail/linuxconf), and 3) I really don't care about
> incoming sendmail anyways - I won't be getting any, unless it comes from my
> wife's machine, and she can just forward to my uucp/ipop address if she wants.
>
> so, how do I set up sendmail for out-going support only? Or is there something
> different I should be doing (aside from using qmail, smail - I really want the
> sendmail knowledge) ? (directions using linuxconf/sendmail configure would be
> appreciated.
>
> thank you, and regards,
>
> -Greg
>
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> Date: 13-Apr-00
> Time: 09:04:02
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>
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