I installed fetchmail and it's terrific. Now the
only thing left is to send mail away. I know
there's a million options. What I see immediately
is: UUCP v. SMTP. I didn't find the sendmail.m4
file yet, probably have it from the sources. When
I try to send mail via emacs, I see it in my
mailbox after 4 hours saying:
The original message was received at Tue, 20 Apr
1999 22:51:11 -0400
from root@localhost
----- The following addresses had transient
non-fatal errors -----
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to unagi.cis.upenn.edu.:
>>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=115
<<< 451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain must
resolve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred: 451
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain must resolve
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
(I'm trying to send it to myself at
unagi.cis.upenn.edu.) I know I probably didn't
configure local named.boot fully -- but I added a
line
forwarders IP1 IP2
where the IPs are ATT's nameservers'.
Why does sendmail try to resolve yaw.suffix.com?
I own suffix.com, but don't have a static IP for
yaw, my local box, which I connect via ATT ppp.
Since yaw.suffix.com It doesn't exist anyways, the
return mail must come to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- but
when I say
sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -q
to flush the queue with that "from" fake, I get
this:
The original message was received at Wed, 21 Apr
1999 02:50:48 -0400
from root@localhost
----- The following addresses had transient
non-fatal errors -----
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Transcript of session follows -----
451
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
unagi.cis.upenn.edu: Name server timeout
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
Now I read Linux Mail-HOWTO and it bluntly says
sendmail is obsolete and insecure, qmail
(www.qmail.org) is the king of the hill. It has a
manifold of little processes running without root
UID, and there's a $1K prize for breaking its
security went unclaimed. But when I try to
configure it after successful compile, I get:
Your hostname is yaw.
hard error
Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
You will have to set up control/me yourself.
-----
Can you please advise?! Here's how I call things:
/etc/HOSTNAME is just
yaw.suffix.com
/etc/mailname is just
suffix.com
/etc/hosts has a line
192.168.0.1 yaw yaw.suffix.com
for my local ethernet.
As I said,
/etc/named.boot has a line
forwarders 204.127.129.1 204.127.160.1
where the IPs belong to ATT nameservers.
/etc/resolv.conf assigns domain att.net to search from:
domain att.net
nameserver 204.127.129.1
nameserver 204.127.160.1
So how the DEC you make mail leave the building?!
--
Cheers,
Alexy Khrabrov -- www.suffix.com -- Segmentation f%^(&
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