sendmail on fedora core4 issue

[Karl Goetz]

Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>     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
> 

Thanks for the replies,
I'll check for this when i get access to the server next week. I'll let
you know how i get on.
kk

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