[LUNI] sendmail configuration question

[Seva Epsteyn]

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
> > 
> > 
> > 
>