[KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:02:55 -0500 (EST)


>>Actually I don't think RH8 will even recieve mail, as sendmail only
>>listens on lo (127.0.0.1) by default; or at least that is what I recall.
>This is correct. I had to add my public address and port to sendmail.cf.
>I've also change the host and domain info from localhost.localdomain to
>myhost.mydomain but send mail still thinks it's localhost.localdomain.

Did you edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf or /etc/mail/submit.cf

Sendmail 8.12.x and greater use a seperate configuration for submissions 
(which solves alot of nasty little problems).

Also what does `hostname` report?  Can you look yourself up in DNS?