I have, what seems to me, to be a common setup.
I have a home linux box (and a local home lan).
My box has a local name, but no domain name. I get my incoming mail from
other sources (mostly uucp, but it could also be ipop). The point is that I
don't need sendmail for incoming mail services (except for local delivery).
I would like to set up sendmail for outgoing mail services though. My ISP's
sendmail is an open relay, and if I use that as my MTA's delivery agent,
there are some places I mail to that will get rejected because the mail
comes from an open relay.
I used to use smail on my old linux box (running rh 4.1), and it is this box
that is getting upgraded to rh6.2. I decided to use linuxconf to configure
sendmail, but for the life of me can't seem to figure some things out.
it seems that sendmail really want a domain name. I suppose that this is for
incoming mail, but 1) I do not have a domain name, 2) I don't feel like lying
and making one up (mostly because I am unsure of the consequences of telling
that particular lie to sendmail/linuxconf), and 3) I really don't care about
incoming sendmail anyways - I won't be getting any, unless it comes from my
wife's machine, and she can just forward to my uucp/ipop address if she wants.
so, how do I set up sendmail for out-going support only? Or is there something
different I should be doing (aside from using qmail, smail - I really want the
sendmail knowledge) ? (directions using linuxconf/sendmail configure would be
appreciated.
thank you, and regards,
-Greg
----------------------------------
E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13-Apr-00
Time: 09:04:02
The answer to the meaning of life:
perl -e 'print$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10); '
----------------------------------
--
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
as the Subject.
