[KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8

[Jeremy Leonard]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Williams" <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8


> >>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.cf and submit.cf
neither seemed to change anything other that the listening port.

>
> 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?

hostname returns the correct hostname.
I can do both forward and reverse lookups and they are all correct.

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