[KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8

[Robert G. Brown]

>>>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?

You may well need to change /etc/hosts, or the HOSTNAME definition
(HOSTNAME= in /etc/sysconfig/network ??), and/or you DNS configuration.

All of this (and more) is what I meant by "configuration".

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