Sendmail- Is this correct.?

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Mark Sargent.
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> ok, I checked /var/log/maillog and found this,
> 
> Apr 11 16:51:06 localhost sendmail[7896]: j3B7p5JJ007893: 
> to=<powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp>, 
> ctladdr=<coolboarderguy at localhost.localdomain> (500/500), 
> delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=120395, 
> relay=sv.feel.to. [211.10.15.172], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j3B7oLl09915 
> Message accepted for delivery)
> 
> That looks like success from my end, yes..? But, it's not reaching my 
> inbox for the address I'm mailing to. Anything I should be double 
> checking with this..? Cheers.

Your mail server is sending out mail with a bogus from: address of 
coolboarderguy at localhost.localdomain. No sensible mail server will 
accept mail from unresolvable domains like that. You need to use a real 
domain name. Look up masquerading in /usr/share.sendmail-cf/README

Paul.