Sendmail

[Lunt, Nick]

Im top posting ... sorry,

Kostas, you have grabbed the wrong end of the stick with both hands here mate. I was helping a dude out, your post was useless. I dont care if people would rather run sendmail or postfix, I was just advising a MTA learner on the easiest way to be able to email to the outside world from his linux boxes.

Nick .

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kostas Sfakiotakis [mailto:kostassf at rocketmail.com]
> Sent: 22 April 2006 16:03
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Sendmail
> 
> 
> Greetings Nick ,
> 
> Lunt, Nick wrote:
> 
> >Hi Roger,
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Roger [mailto:roger at mirasol.co.za]
> >>Sent: 20 April 2006 16:57
> >>To: dbrett at tcn.net
> >>Cc: Red Hat
> >>Subject: Re: Sendmail
> >>
> >>
> >>I have tried changing the resolv.conf file to make sure 
> that it points
> >>to my IP Address, sendmail works but is rather slow, it takes 
> >>5 mins to
> >>try and send a message.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >you've been given advice on amending sendmail.mc and it's 
> good advice.
> >However as much as I hate it when people say things such as 
> "Dont use telnet ... use ssh" in this instance
> >I thoroughly recommend you move from sendmail to postfix if you can.
> >  
> >
> Well if Roger wishes to change from sendmail to postfix then by all 
> means . But if i might
> say , by changing from sendmail to postfix he will not solve 
> his problem 
> but he will evade
> the problem .
> 
> Postfix is much smarter than sendmail
> 
> If i might again , could you please avoid such statements . They can 
> lead to chaos .
> 
> 
>  and will work out of the bag for most things,
> 
> Roger is not facing a bug . It's a misconfiguration problem i faced 
> sometime ago .
> 
> You see there are  two files that must have the correct 
> information in 
> order for
> sendmail to succeed to qualify the Fully Qualified Domain 
> Name( FQDN  in 
> sort ) .
> 
> Namely ( Since it wasn't referenced before )
> 
> 1. /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> The Above named file must have a line stating
> 
> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
> 
> 2.   /etc/hosts
> 
> The above named file must have a line stating
> 
> 127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain  localhost
> 
> In the above line localhost.localdomain is  the FQDN and
> localhost is the alias . Now a machine can have as many
> aliases as it's administrator wishes for as long as they are
> all listed here seperated by comas .
> 
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf  MUST NOT be changed .
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf is a file used by named the Name Resolver
> Daemon , who is called in time of need .
> 
> 
>  and it's way easier than sendmail to configure if you want to.
> 
> Well i have heard that many times , so it must be true .
> 
> 
> Just all IMHO, tell me to get stuffed if you like ;)
> 
> :)) Well nobody expected more than that ( your IMHO ) .
> 
> >Nick .
> >
> >  
> >
> Kostas
> 
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