[NTLUG:Discuss] newbie needs help w/sendmail

[Chris Cox]

Richard Wolfe wrote:
> Hello all...newbie here...
> 
> I've installed a couple of Linux machines for my employer over the last
> couple of years, and right out of the box I've always been able to "mail
> xyz at wherever.com" from the shell prompt and the email goes through no
> problem. It always "just works" as they say. Sure, the email says it's
> from localhost at localdomain, and sometimes it gets tagged as spam on the
> receiving end, but it does indeed go out.

I'm surprised.  I know most ISP's (MTA's) stopped handling
mail from localhost's. I haven't been able to do this in about
5 years.

Obviously, there are no fewer than 234,234,123,222,333,445,323
SMTP open relays in China that you could use :)


> 
> But I just recently set up a new machine with Fedora Core 4, and this
> little bit of functionality isn't working. It looks like it's working,
> but the emails never arrive. Here's a sendmail -v example below. Can
> anyone tell, from looking at this, if it's really getting through to the
> recipient server (gmail.com, in this case) or not?

For me... I got a real domain so I have a real MTA to go through.
That was my solution to the problem.

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