Sendmail- Is this correct.?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 11 08:59:35 UTC 2005


Mark Sargent wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:04 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am giving this a whirl on a machine at work. I've set it to use our 
>>> provider to relay(right terminology.?) Ok, I set up an account in 
>>> Evolution that uses smtp:localhost.localdomain and sent a mail to 
>>> myself. I then checked with Thunderbird to see if the mail was 
>>> successful, but, nothing. I'm sure I've missed something very 
>>> fundamental. Below is the only section I changed in my .mc file,
>>>
>>> dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.feel.to')
>>>
>>> Anything else need adjusting/tweaking..? Cheers.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You need to delete the "dnl", which means "delete to new line". It's
>> m4's way of commenting things out.
>>
>> Paul.
>>  
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> thanx Paul. Paul, is there a way to confirm that the sendmail.cf is now 
> sending via smtp.feel.to as the test mail is still not arriving..? Cheers.

Look in /var/log/maillog to see where sendmail is routing your mail to.

Look what's in your mail queues using "mailq" and "mailq -Ac".

Paul.




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