On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:15:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> The reason I want to by-pass my ISP's mail server is
> /var/log/maillog.
> I want to see in that file (via 'tail -f') that my mail has reached
> the addressee's mail server, and I did not see this IIRC when I used
> my ISP's
On Jun 24, 2002, 00:15 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hal, Kevin,
> first: Thanks for your help ... I think I came now nearer to what I
> want with my sendmail configs ..
>
> On Jun 23, 2002, 13:19 (-0400) Kevin MacNeil wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Thanks again, Hal and Kevin: answers like yours t
Hal, Kevin,
first: Thanks for your help ... I think I came now nearer to what I
want with my sendmail configs ..
On Jun 23, 2002, 13:19 (-0400) Kevin MacNeil wrote:
> It looks like the the receiving mta is doing a dns lookup on
> localhost.localdomain, which isn't a legal hostname. There are a
It looks like the the receiving mta is doing a dns lookup on
localhost.localdomain, which isn't a legal hostname. There are a couple
of potential solutions to this common problem. First, try routing your
mail through your isp's mailserver by defining it as a smarthost in your
/etc/mail/sendmail.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:40:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Problem the last time is, that the addressees' mail servers often
> seemingly do not recognize and/or accept my local IP as a valid
> mail server IP, thus rejecting my mail. At least this is my guess ...
> So how can I still u