No I am at no intentions at spamming anyones' mail server, I am trying to get this working so I can use it to remind certain people by email that they have not completed their tasks.

Like a reminder EMAIL.

so you already have a SMTP server (microsoft exchange maybe?)

The only smtp server(SENDMAIL) I am aware of is the one that we are talking about. The one that I have recently installed my machine.

So you're in a business that don't have e-mail addresses?

Ugob,

Yes we have email but it is operated under a different network and not controlled by us.

r,
tt

well, how do you send mail then? using that smtp server? well, use it for your sendmail.

in anyways, your sendmail should work out of the box, as long as the request comes from the machine itself

I have a separate machine under a different network strictly for email and I can go over to that machine and send mail. I can only send to user on this linux server(locally WORKS FINE!! ), but I cannot send to "someone@yahoo.com", "someone@aol.com" etc....


r,
TT

What are the errors?

What's in the logs?

Is the path /var/log/maillog?

The other day I deleted all info the maillog and now it doesn't write to the maillog anymore. Can I fix this?

the path should be right.

just re-create the file and restart syslog

I am not sure where syslog is located?? Yeah i deleted the file and created a new one thinking that might be the problem but it still didn't write to the maillog file.


r
TT

restart syslog

you should get to know how to restart a daemon by now

go to: /etc/init.d/

you'll see scripts. execute them with the restart argument.

ex: ./syslog restart

or use

service servicename restart

ex: service syslog restart

Okay I stop and restarted both syslog and sendmail

r,
TT

and...?

When i tried to send an email to "me@hotmail.com" the maillog displays:

Dec 5 09:56:01 timedb sendmail[567]: hB5Fu106000567: from=root@localhost, size=192, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200312051556.hB5Fu106000567@localhost.localdomain>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=timedb [127.0.0.1]

Dec 5 09:56:01 timedb sendmail[569]: hB5Fu106000567: to=trantv826@hotmail.com, ctladdr=root@localhost (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30112, relay=smtp.trantv.mail.yahoo.com, dsn=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: smtp.trantv.mail.yahoo.com: host not found)

Dec 5 09:56:01 timedb sendmail[569]: hB5Fu106000567: hB5Fu106000569: DSN: Host unknown (Name server: smtp.trantv.mail.yahoo.com: host not found)

Dec 5 09:56:01 timedb sendmail[569]: hB5Fu106000569: to=root@localhost, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31216, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

I configured my sendmail.mc and regenerated sendmail.cf to put smtp.trantv.mail.yahoo.com just to test, but it does not seem like its working