Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:35:59 -0500, kashani wrote: > Actually you can't use ssmtp as it can not deliver mail locally and is > not an MTA. It can only relay mail off the local box to a real mail > server. You can use ssmtp, but you have to set logwatch to send mails to a 'real' mail address and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread kashani
John Jolet wrote: You could stay with ssmtp, just edit the config file (i think it's /etc/ssmtp.conf or something). It doesn't do aliases, but you can set ONE alias for all destination uids under 1000. Alternatively, you can unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail (or better yet, in my opionion, p

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread John Jolet
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > Dave Nebinger wrote: > > >> I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: > >> > >> send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) > >> Can't s

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread C. Beamer
Dave Nebinger wrote: >> I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: >> >> send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) >> Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 > > > What MTA

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 What MTA are you using, Colleen? That will be

[gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, Yesterday, I posted asking for a Gentoo equivalent of something I was able to do in Fedora, I got some answers which were of assistance, one being to check my logwatch.conf file to see what the frequency was set at. This helped because it was set weekly and since I had just installed log