sendmail....

sudo · 12-07-2002, 07:26 PM

hi..
how do i configure sendmail?? have lokked around.. but havent found much worth using!!

clavius · 12-08-2002, 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sudo
hi..
how do i configure sendmail?? have lokked around.. but havent found much worth using!!

www.sendmail.org

Donald1000 · 12-08-2002, 03:43 AM

"Webmin" is useful for sendmail configuration, too!
www.webmin.com

sudo · 12-08-2002, 10:50 AM

hmmm. apparently i dont have the file cf.m4 which the sendmail.mc refers to... what to do??
i have NEVER had anything to do with sendmail before so i would appreciate all the help i can get!!

unSpawn · 12-08-2002, 11:53 AM

It's in a separate package. Tho I don't recall the name now it's bound to be something called like "sendmail-config".

sudo · 12-08-2002, 12:08 PM

i just checked on rpmfind.net ... cant find anything related!!
i got both sendmail and m4 package installed...

jeremy · 12-08-2002, 12:12 PM

The rpm is called sendmail-cf, but you do not necessarily need this to configure sendmail. What problem are you having?

--jeremy

sudo · 12-08-2002, 12:51 PM

im trying to configure send mail.. this is the error message i get when trying to run the command: m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

/etc/mail/sendmail.mc:8: m4 cannot open /usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4: no such file or directory

jeremy · 12-08-2002, 03:19 PM

Is there something in particular you are trying to change in your sendmail setup that you are running m4? For most changes you can just edit the .cf manually.

--jeremy

sudo · 12-08-2002, 04:08 PM

i dont know that much about it.. im trying to set up a mail server for my network.. but i cant connect to it from my clients..
and i read somewhere that i should comment out a line in the sendmail.mc and run the m4 command.. my sendmail.cf is blank!!

jeremy · 12-08-2002, 05:11 PM

If you installed via rpm you should have an /etc/sendmail.cf. The file that controls who can relay is /etc/mail/access. Also by default starting in (i think) RH 7.3 sendmail only listens on localhost - look for the DaemonPortOptions option in the cf file.

--jeremy

sudo · 12-09-2002, 04:04 PM

i didnt install via rpm... but chose it while installing the OS ... i think i might try to re-install the rpm package.. and see what happens... this is to weird.. and takes to long...

ill be back when i have tried it again!!

btw... is there any other mail serv i should rather use??? have heard a lot of bad things about sendmail recently..