[KLUG Members] Across the world, sure! Across the room? No!

[Robert G. Brown]

I have a webserver on one side of the room, and a mail server 
on the other side of the room (but on the same subnet). The 
website has a page where the user will enter some test, and 
it will get e-mailed (using the php "mail" function).

The idea is to send the mail across the room to the mail server
(actually, the same one I'm using to send this message, so we 
know its working); from there it will be delivered (almost always
locally, occasionally not) to the message destination.

I seem to be having real trouble getting the e-mail across the
room! I've RTFM'ed the sendmail.org documentaion, and tried a
number of things, like SMART_HOST, MAIL_HUB, and so on.

I'm sure someone on this list has done this before, probably to
the point where it can be done while sleeping. It does occur
to me that I have only ever configured sendmail so that it is
a working Internet mail server, and have been successful getting
e-mail across the world with it. Getting mail across the room
seems to be a very different matter.

						Regards,
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