On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Mike Keithley wrote:
>I'm using Slackware 4.0 and have sendmail installed. I use fetchmail to
>get mail from the POP3 server of my ISP and this works great. I do a
>PPP connection to the ISP.
>
>My problem is that outgoing mail simply vanishes. I know the SMTP
>machine I should use on my ISP but don't know how to tell sendmail what
>it is.
What makes you think it vanishes,?. What does /var/adm{log}/messages
or syslog or maillog say.?
What mailer do you use.??
Normaly speaking if you address a mail to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] then
providing your system has routes set correctly and sendmail was
installed correctly it might seem as if mail dissapiers.
What says. 'mailq' as well ?? after writing and sending a message, it
could be that you are sending mail as a _user_ and root is receiving
the returned mail from the mailer_daemon.!!. (If there is a problem)..
To force _all_ mail to be sent to your isp you can define the
following in /etc/sendmail.cf (around line 96). +/-
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS your_isp's_mail_address_here
For example mine is
DS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Outgoing mail gets put into /var/spool/mqueue the command above
_mailq_ shows if there is mail in the queue also.
check also /var/spool/mail/root if the file is large then "root" is
getting all the mail back.
Check also /etc/aliases to see who gets mail van "mailerdeamon" a
normal system would have in /etc/aliases
# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root
{further down possably a reroute as follows.}
root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the account is on localhost then just the username maybe used as
the reciprient.
>Can any one help? Thanks.
Hope that does help.
Maybe upgrading sometime in the near futcher will help you out of
more problems, slackware 4.0 is very old and things have improved
100% in both console mode and X, i would certanly recomend it.
--
Regards Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
