* Johannes Breu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-03 13:16]: > I can get mails from my POP-server using mutt but I am not able to send > mails. I think is due to unsuccessfull configuration of sendmail. So > this is my question: How do I configure sendmail? I just want sendmail > to know my SMTP-server. Nothing more. If it is important: my computer is > stably integrated in an network.
If you have a mailhost (I'll assume by "stably integrated" that you do), you can build your sendmail.cf with define(`SMART_HOST', `esmtp:mailhost') in the m4 config; the resulting line in the sendmail.cf looks like: DSesmtp:mailhost (I think that's all you need.) However, I recommend ssmtp. Keep reading if you care. > If you can help me please say I exactly wih which commands I need to > configure sendmail. I really got angry with that. We've all been there. I just installed ssmtp the other day, and it was trivial. The entirety of my config looks like: # # /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf -- a config file for sSMTP sendmail. # # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required # no MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com # The example will fit if you are in domain.com and your mailhub is so named. mailhub=mailhost # Where will the mail seem to come from? rewriteDomain=real.domain # The full hostname hostname=me.real.domain > Furhter information: I am using Debian 2.2. In some way sendmail seems > to be connected with zmailer. I am not familiar with this either. All > I want to know is what do I have to do that my outgoing mail goes to > the SMTP-server. You should be able to apt-get install ssmtp: $ apt-cache search ssmtp ssmtp - Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub (darren) -- There is not enough love in the world to squander it on anything by human beings.
