sendmail on fedora core4 issue

[Chris Foote]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Karl Goetz wrote:

> I'm trying to pick up the work done on an FC4 server [1] by someone else.
> One thing i need to fix is sendmail, which used to send a nightly email
> to a real email address. i managed to 'fix' it so it now sends the email
> as far as the users local mail on the server, but it still wont send out
> onto the 'net.
> What would i need to provide by way of logs/configs for someone to be
> able to help me with the system?

Examine the headers of the message successfully delivered locally, and
you might find that the envelope's From: field is from a mail domain
that isn't resolvable on the Internet.  e.g. user at localhost.localdomain
In which case many mail servers on the Internet will trash the message
because it is from an unresolvable domain.  You should see a matching
error in /var/log/maillog    If so, you'll need to use a hostname that
resolves in the Internet's DNS in the /etc/sysconfig/network config file.

Cheers,

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