sendmail on fedora core4 issue

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:13:13AM +0930, Chris Foote wrote: 

    >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.

Or you could add to your mc file:

 FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders')dnl
 FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl

 -aW


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