[nachya]

Hello,
I installed redhat 8.0 yesterday. I am trying to send mail using sendmail. Sendmail works fine for the local machine.
e.g. when i do /usr/sbin/sendmail nachya
I get a mail.
But when i send a mail to me@mydomain.com I am not receiving any mails.

I checked /var/log/maillog and the entry i had was

Oct 25 09:13:40 MyHost sendmail[30819]: i9PDDea30816: to=me@mydomain.com, ctladdr=myhost (501/501), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=33893, relay=mysmtp.mydomain.com. [10.10.2.64], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (M2004102512445428824 Message accepted for delivery)

This says message accepted for delivery but i am not getting any mails.

I have not made any configuration changes, i am using all defaults.
I do not want to run this machine as a mail server.
It just needs to send emails to an valid address.
Thanks for your time

- Nachya

[adrenaline]

Originally Posted by nachya

I do not want to run this machine as a mail server.
It just needs to send emails to an valid address.
Thanks for your time

- Nachya

Does this sound fishy to anyone else?

[nachya]

Adrenaline,
I am new to linux, i just want to send email from my machine. I dont know if my machine needs to be setup as an email server.
If i want to use /usr/bin/sendmail to send mail to xyz@yahoo.com what do i need to do? I know my ISP's SMTP address.
If you are thinking about spam email or stuff then i have no idea how to do it and i dont want to know it.

Thanks
nachya

[FyberOptyx]

if you just want to send email you don't need a server, just email software like evolution

[tfk]

The Mozilla suite also brings a good e-mail client.

[nachya]

hello,
Thanks for the reply. I am trying to use sendmail because with the -t flag it can parse a file for To: Subject: tags and create a formatted email.
But sendmail doesnt seem to be working.

in /var/logs/maillog i get message accepted for delivery but no one actually gets the email.

I also commented the following line from sendmail.mc and rebulid sendmail and restarted it. but still no luck.

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

any ideas.

thanks
nachya

[adrenaline]

Your probably not set for relaying. Sendmail 8. 0 through present doesn't relay by default.
Just curious why wouldn't someone new to linux just use an email client why do you want a server?