I am running Mandrake 10.1, Apache 2.0, PHP & MySQL. I have successfully set up the web server and am running some websites. (tikiwiki.org is a great product)

My problem is the mail side, and am hoping someone can help here. I don´t need to set up a full mail server, but do want to send mail out from my sites. I can´t seem to configure sendmail to do this.

The from php.net I can tell that the mail() function needs access to the sendmail binaries. As I believe this is set correctly, I tried to test sendmail through KDE Kontact. I have set up the outgoing mail to be sent via sendmail. I have tested sending mail and Kontact reports that the mail is sent. I have check the files in the mqueue directory and can see that there are some queued emails.

What am I missing? I assume there is a file, IP address or domain name in one of the config files that is missing. Can someone help put me on the right track to solve this problem.

Thanks,
Maarten

I have my MX record set for the incoming mail to 1and1 who hold my domain registration. A reply from their support to a question I asked was:

"Unfornatley with the package you have you can not send mail through our SMTP server. However the mail forwarding is avaible which i can see you are using."

Does the outgoing mail have to use their SMTP servers? Could this be where I am getting stuck?