Nothing fancy here, I just need sendmail to be able to send messages out to the internet from my redhat 9 workstation. I'm not trying to run a mailserver or anything.
It's fresh off the install, and I haven't edited any sendmail config files (because I don't know how or which ones to edit). Here's what I get back when I try and send an email:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to flmx04.mgw.rr.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<root@localhost.localdomain> SIZE=328
<<< 553 5.1.8 <root@localhost.localdomain>... Domain of sender address
root@localhost.localdomain does not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error
--h9UDR1dx005841.1067520421/localhost.localdomain
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost.localdomain
Arrival-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:26:10 -0500
Final-Recipient: RFC822;
edited.email@address.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.8
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 5.1.8 <root@localhost.localdomain>... Domain of sender address
root@localhost.localdomain does not exist
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:27:01 -0500