Enabling email from hosts

[Richard Hobbs]

Hello,

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Cowles
> Sent: 07 September 2004 15:39
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> Subject: Re: Enabling email from hosts
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> On Stardate 6609.08, Richard Hobbs said:
> 
> | Hello,
> |
> | On a similare note to the last email from myself, I need to 
> configure
> basic
> | email sending on a number of hosts.
> |
> | First, the facts...
> |
> | We have an IMAP and SMTP Server called "mail.mydomain.com".
> |
> | We have a number of hosts called "host1", "host2", and 
> "host3" (all ending
> | ".mydomain.com").
> |
> |>From any of those hosts, we can "telnet mail 25" to send 
> email, and all
> | emails are delivered successfully.
> |
> | However, we cannot "mail -s test anything at mydomain.com".
> |
> | How can we give these hosts a default SMTP server??
> |
> | Thanks again,
> | Hobbs.
> |
> 
> So what error is sendmail generating? Might help if you include a
> logfile entry for the above e-mail example.

I think I've discovered the problem... I need to set up a smarthost (so
sendmail on the hosts forwards emails to "mail" for sending).

We are using sendmail-8.12.5-7 on RedHat 8.0.

Can anyone let me know how to set up a smarthost using what we have?

Thanks,
Hobbs.

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Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator)
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group
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Email: richard.hobbs at crl.toshiba.co.uk
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