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Old 03-11-2005
what is sendmail ? how to use it ?

what is sendmail ? how to use it ?
is it like mailx mail client or different.
or is it mailx mail is internally dependent on sendmail to send mails out.

please tell me how to send mail using sendmail.

i strongly feel that at my place whatever mails send by using mailx
are diverted to sendmail and it validates something blah blah ...
i donno

but few people receive my mails and few people dont receive my mails.
is there file having list of ids, to whom only i send, if i mailed to other
it get ignored and die like dead.letter mail.

hey what is use of authlog. i found it near some file like syslog

what is the use of authlog and syslog.

i could cat and see syslog is logging my attempt of mailing out and twice i tried and looked into it and found it has noted there.

but i could not open authlog.


could someone please suggest configration files and settings file of sendmail
where to look out for 'user-list' and blah blah ...

i tied studying 'man sendmail' but could not understand there anything. please help ....

Last edited by vkandati; 03-11-2005 at 08:27 PM..
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Old 03-11-2005
[ok]

sendmail is an MTA (mail transfer agent) which is used to deliver or route email, when you enter an smtp server when you config your mail client you are most likely pointing to sendmail or another MTA.

Mailx on the other hand is a mail utility for sending and receiving mail as well as editing, pretty much like a cli version of evolution, thunderbird or outlook.

You are right Mailx is most likely pointing to your sendmail installation, if your isp gave you an smtp server address to pint to i would suggest you use that instead, if not there are quite a few public smtp servers around.

authlog traces authentication server actions, syslog logs system events.
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Old 03-15-2005
well sendmail is an MTA(Mail Transfering Agent). It's basically a deamon that we use if we want to configure a Mail Server. It has certain configuration files located at /etc/mail folder. You have to configure the .mc file and then using the M4 macro to compile it. If you really want to configure you machine as a mail server then tell me about your linux version and the packages. i mean have installed every thing or have missed some packages.
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Old 03-15-2005
In which file and location it is set to send/not send mail to other/same domain users

Please tell in which file and location it is set to send/not send mail to other/same domain users.
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Old 03-15-2005
www.sendmail.org

I recommend you go there......

Also, enjoy .....

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/

Neo
 
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