[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail Problem?

[Tom Woody]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 18:28, Bobby Sanders wrote:
> I've just started sendmail on a new computer named "joe." Mail sent to
> certain sites, mostly universities, is bounced with the notation:
> 
> (reason: 504 <usr at joe>: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified
> address)
> 
> Can I get sendmail to remote machines that I am really
> usr1 at isp_name.com?  If so, how?
> 
in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc (at least this is where it is on Redhat)
you need to add the following line, and the smtp.your.provider would be
the hostname of the mail (so on my machine at home its mail.attbi.com). 
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')

This makes sendmail send your email through your isp, lots of sites
blacklist people who send email without using the isp because typically
they are spammers.
-- 
Tom Woody
Systems Manager, NationWide Flood Research, Inc.
phone: 214-631-0400 x209

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