Sendmail not working at all

[morbo]

When sending mail to the user 'mailer' I get the following returned e-mail from the daemon:

The original message was received at Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:52:03 -0600 (CST)
from [204.57.72.42] (may be forged)

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<mailer@my.servers.ip.address>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 <mailer@myservers.ip.address>... Host unknown (Name server: myservers.ip.address: host not found)

I do not have a hostname setup on the box-just an ip, what files do I need to check to ensure sendmail will actually route the mail properly?

 

[ForumKid]

Look at the files in /etc/mail. They may help you.
Thanks

 

[morbo]

Ok, I looked at all of these files but couldn't make heads or tails of my situation. Basically, all I need to know is what is casuing this error.......

 

[LeDam]

mail me and test all with you.... i only need the result of this command :
sendmail -v MAILER@MAILTO.TO
ledam@caramail.com

 

[morbo]

WARNING: local host name (Bugtel) is not qualified; fix $j in config file

Then I get the flashing '_' cursor, and nothing happens.

 

[LeDam]

Why don't you put a hostname???

 

[morbo]

Well I changed the variable to my hostname, and then after issuing that same command again I get:

/etc/sendmail.cf: line 525: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 533: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 534: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 614: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 615: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 616: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 620: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 625: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 666: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 895: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 902: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 911: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 1389: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 1475: expand: recursion too deep (10 max)
expand: recursion too deep (10 max)

This is from a default sendmail.cf

 

[LeDam]

send me your sendamail.cf please :
d.vancutsem@lbk.be

 

[RhythmAce]

Click on this link to get a copy:

http://www.nakremodeling.com/cgi-bin/ftp/sendmail.cgi

It will unzip a file called sendmail.txt. Copy it to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and edit these two lines:
MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)dnl <---- your domain goes here
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=xx.xxx.xxx.xx, Name=MTA') <---- Your IP goes here

Then type:
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

This will create /etc/sendmail.cf. This file works on my machine running RH 7.2 Don't forget to restart sendmail ater you do this.

 

[roeiboot]

RhythmAce,

the file is missing.. i'm trying to setup Sendmail to use for Internet email, have my own domain-name & everything, it used to work on Windwos 2000 AS.. but since i switched to Linux RH 7.1 it doesn't work, trying to get mail thru a Windows 98 pc with Outlook.

i don't have the &quot;MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)dnl&quot; line in my config, do i need to add that ?

thx in advance.