Re: How close am I with getting sendmail going.

[Bill Katsma <bkatsma@xxxxxxxx>]

I have a question that may be elementary but I need to ask it because I
am very confused on this.  Can I set up linux to send email to any one
on the internet without have a domain name (Publicly known) without
using any other mail server (except of course the receiving server)?

If this is possible I will have a few more questions on setting this
up.  If it is not possible could some suggest a way for my PHP programs
to mail out  my forms.  My company uses a public email server in which I
do not want to use to relay my mail. (MIS will not understand how to do
this so they will not be able to help).  All I have is a linux box with
a static public IP.

Thanks again!


Bill

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> >>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.