On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:49:19PM -0700, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > Hi ppl > well here's the situation. I have around 5 active > email addresses(don't ask me why I have 5!). I use > bellsouth adsl and i am sure port 25 is open. In order > to manage all the emails from one single point(also i > need to access it from anywhere) i use fetchmail to > get it to the local mailbox on my box. this part works > perfectly fine. But to send mails from my box I use > sendmail.To read and send messages I use pine. The > trouble is not everyone i email get them. some emails > are totally lost some reach in few hours and most of > them reach within few seconds. > i have searched in google and read through some of the > documents for sendmail.
Try switching to postfix. Postfix is far easier to configure than sendmail and has better security, etc. http://www.postfix.org -- Bryce T Pier IT Manager TFN, The Football Network, Inc.