Well...I've just set up my Apache server on RedHat 8.0. Now I need to set up Sendmail. One of the people who's kinda helping me told me it can be a bear to configure by hand, so I'm looking for a program to help me with this. Anyone ever done this? I've tried following this tutorial, but don't know where to download the file, and I always get an error at the ./config line:

http://devel-home.kde.org/~ksmt/ksendmail.html

the error is this - configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

I know it means it can't find the comiler...but what do I do? Any help would be great!

you install the compiler - gcc. but going from the way you are writing, just install the rpms that came with redhat, it's much easier for newbies.

configuring sendmail by hand is a doddle for a simple system, it just gets exponentially harder. to get a basic sendmail system running you should only need to change a few lines in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc which are already commented to twell you what to change.

It still doesn't work
It has an error about port 25. Is it not on or something? How can I open it up/turn it on? Thanks!

hi, I know little about sendmail, but I do know that many ISP block off port 25 to prevent its customers computers from sending spam... you'd have to check w/ your ISP if this is the case. Keep in mind that many of them don't want you to run mail servers, so they probably won't help you.

You need to run sendmail to be able to access port 25. If you want to bind sendmail to an external interface (for reveiving e-mails rather than running it only as MTA for internal mails) you need to modify /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and then use the m4-tools to produce the sendmail.cf ... like this:

m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /ec/mail/sendmail.cf

The easiest way to configure sendmail is with webmin.