Re: How close am I with getting sendmail going.

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>If I do not have the mail gateway ip entered the mail just sits never
>>leaves.  Which reminds me is there a sendmail log file to help trouble
>>shoot this?
>The sendmail log is   /var/log/maillog
>Your box does NOT need to be running it's own DNS server, just make
>sure it can resolve the names of computes you are sending mail to and 
>itself.  Either point it to a good DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf or 
>enter the IP's and host names in /etc/hosts .   Then check to make 
>sure it works by looking up the hostnames with the command "nslookup".

With nslookup to a "set type=MX" then lookup the hosts you want to send mail too.  DNS MX records control mail delivery.