[olug] Configuring Sendmail

Sam Tetherow tetherow at nicusa.com
Mon Jul 7 18:45:48 UTC 2003


I always wonder why people complain about how hard it is to configure 
sendmail until I see someone mention editing the .cf file....

To achieve the same thing with the .mc file

define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.om.om.cox.net')dnl
define(`confRELAY_MAILER', `smtp.central.cox.net')dnl


Vincent wrote:
> You should only need to edit two lines in sendmail.cf:
> Dj$w.om.om.cox.net
> DSsmtp.central.cox.net
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/sendmail should look like this:
> DAEMON=yes
> QUEUE=1m
> 
> Then run these commands:
> chkconfig sendmail on
> service sendmail restart
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ed Carlsen" <edcarlsen at cox.net>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:54 AM
> Subject: [olug] Configuring Sendmail
> 
> 
> 
>>I have a Red hat 9.0 box on COX at home cable modem and would like to use it
>>for sending mail with PINE.
>>I am trying to configure sendmail but it does not seem to work. I tried
>>using webmin to configure but I am not sure where to put the COX server
>>name, smtp.central.cox.net.
>>An I do not know the IP address for the COX mail server.
>>What is the simpliest way to configure sendmail to send mail through the
>>mail server at smtp.central.cox.net?
>>Thanks.
>>Ed Carlsen
>>
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Sam Tetherow                           tetherow at nicusa.com
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