[LUNI] sendmail configuration question

[Samir Faci]

I'd also suggest simply upgrading.  RHL 7.3 is bound to have a ridiculous
list of vulnerabilities by now.  ditto on the postfix.  I never really tried
to get sendmail to working, but from everything I've heard it's a sadistic
exercise anyways.

--
Samir

On 11/13/07, Seva Epsteyn <seva at sevatech.com> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> One more thing, you can install postfix for RHL 7.3 from
> http://freshrpms.net if that makes things easier and you don't have a
> complex existing sendmail setup.
>
> -Seva
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Seva Epsteyn wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > I would imagine your ISP requires SMTP AUTH or POP3 login before
> allowing
> > you to send mail?  But you can try this if you want:
> >
> > 1. Install (or verify that it's installed) sendmail-cf
> >
> >  apt-get install sendmail-cf
> > or
> >  yum install sendmail-cf
> > assuming you have apt-get or yum setup.
> >
> > 2. Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc:
> >
> >  dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs
> to
> >  dnl # be sent out through an external mail server:
> >  dnl #
> >  dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')
> >
> > Remove dnl (delete to newline) from the define and add your SMTP server.
> >
> > 3. make -C /etc/mail
> >
> > 4. service sendmail restart
> >
> > Do you know exactly what is triggering the spam mark?  I am going to
> guess
> > that a) above is not going to work w/out SMTP AUTH of some sort and b)
> if
> > it does it's not going to help because the mail is getting marked as
> spam
> > for a different reason (like IP doesn't resolve?)
> >
> > You can also try setting MAILTO="your at email.address" in the crontab,
> > perhaps the spam check doesn't like that To: is root at random.host vs your
> > actual email address?
> >
> > -Seva
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Mike Scott wrote:
> >
> > > I have an old 'Hat 7.3 server that reports the status of various
> > > cronjobs by sending me email (I alias the root account to my main
> email
> > > account).  The problem is that I am having trouble getting email
> through
> > > due to spam filtering.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if it would help if I use my ISPs email server
> > > (smtp.mail.wowway.com) as an MX relay.
> > > I would even be willing to change the from address to be my WOW
> mailbox.
> > > The trouble is I don't know enough about the sendmail setup to do this
> > > with comfort.
> > > Can somebody point me to the strings I need to set in the sendmail
> > > config file.
> > >
> > > - Mike Scott
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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