Hi, I'm trying to get sendmail on a clean redhat 9.0 server to work for outbound email. I have modified the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc to comment out (added 'dnl') the line 'DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl'. I've 'make -C /etc/mail' and m5 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Restarted sendmail. Made sure the server had a fully qualified domain name (fqdn). /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconif/network all reference the correct host name.
I've updated the name server (dns) to include forward and reverse defs for the new zone. Dig appears to result correctly for both forward and reverse.
But when I send the email and tail the /var/log/maillog I see that the mail times out and is never delivered correctly.
If you have any ideas I would be greatful for your experience. Let me know if you need any log or config files.
thanks in advance!
BB
I've updated the name server (dns) to include forward and reverse defs for the new zone. Dig appears to result correctly for both forward and reverse.
But when I send the email and tail the /var/log/maillog I see that the mail times out and is never delivered correctly.
If you have any ideas I would be greatful for your experience. Let me know if you need any log or config files.
thanks in advance!
BB