[K12OSN] Using a remote mail server and letting apache have access to it

[jones yeates]

Whenever I do a make and I have the confTRUSTED_USERS it compiles fine but
then it won't restart sendmail properly.

I will try the confDOMAIN on (Monday), but I am not clear as to why I need a
long address for the server for apache to work that is running on the same
machine.



On 11/3/06, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:41, jones yeates wrote:
> > I finally got the trusted user thing to work.  Tapache finally shows
> > up in the sendmail.cf file. I needed to "compile"? the mc file by
> > doing a
> >
> > m4 /usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc >
> > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> >
> > (I was compiling it by doing:  mail -C /etc/mail/)
>
> All you should have to do is:
> service sendmail restart
> or 'make' in the /etc/mail directory (which is automatically
> done by the init script when sendmail starts.
>
> > I checked the /var/log/maillog file and got this error when I tried to
> > e-mail through apache:
> >
> > Nov  3 11:34:36 serverName sendmail[8338]: My unqualified host name
> > (serverName) unknown; sleeping for retry
> >
> > I don't understand why its unqualified.  It is listed as a trusted
> > user.
> > I still can't get the masquerade to work.
>
> Sendmail can't resolve your machine's name in DNS.  Set
> your hostname to a fully qualified domain name or
> specify the name, or if that can't be done, use
> define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`<your_domain>')dnl
>
> This has nothing to do with trusted users, which are allowed
> to specify a From: other than themselves without having
> a Sender: line inserted.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
>
>
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