Hi there...
I'm just moving into Linux (and lemme tell you I'm falling for it).
Though I'm still confused about a lot of stuff...

I have 2 basic Questions about Sendmail.

1) Is my understanding that you can use sendmail to "receive mail" (as an MX) and to "send" mail (as a MAILER MX)... The Q is.. the fact that I have sendmail as a daemon on port 25 doesn't mean that it will be acting as the "Outgoing (Mailer) part" right ?
Where can I select what software I use for "outgoing mail" ?

2) I'm used on IISSMTP to have a "pickup" folder where I drop msgs. and they get sent out... How can I do the same with sendmail ? what folder can I spool them to ?

Thanks in advance.
Excuse my ignorance

Ed.

1) well, sendmail will send mail to an external location, as your local sendmail program relays the mail to the smtp server (e.e.g sendmail) at the host address. I guess you know this but it's that you give SMTP your mail, and it then gives it to somewhere else, pushing rather than pulling. there's no real conceptual difference between a local mailbox and a remote server in the way it's working.

2) err.. pass.

2) /var/spool/mqueue I think is what you're asking about... but that differs (rarely) from distro to distro.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hey guys thanks for the prompt response.

-> finegann

I know the spooler folder is the one you mentioned, but can I just "create a txt file" on that folder and it'll be send out ? If so..what's the format of such file like ?

Thanks in advance.

Ed.

I know you can 'cat filename >> /var/spool/mqueue' into the spool... but it takes specific formatting and I haven't ever dealt with that before. Heck... try looking at an incoming spool from /var/spool/mail/user and see if you can just reverse engineer it?

Why the curiosity? Trying to build a client?

Cheers,

Finegan

Yeah Kinda...

Hey guys...
I have sendmail running, and I have several domains...
in the /etc/hosts file I have

1.2.3.4 domaina.com
1.2.3.5 domainb.com

in the /etc/mail/local-host-names

domaina.com
domainb.com

In the /mail/sendmail.cf

O DaemonPortOptions= Address=0.0.0.0,Name=MTA, M=hb

What I need to do is that when I connect to port domaina in port 25 (telnet in) it will "bind" to 1.2.3.4 and if I connect to domainb will bind to 1.2.3.5
That is, so every virtual domain that I manage have the proper headers...

Excuse me if I am too confusing...

Ed.