[CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Alfred von Campe
I have a stock CentOS 5 system as far as email (sendmail) is concerned that is on our corporate LAN. I am not trying to set up a mail server; I merely want our CentOS systems to be able to send out emails. This works as long as the recipient's domain is our local domain. Any email send

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: It appears that our firewall is not allowing connection to outside MX hosts. I think I need to configure sendmail to forward emails to our local smtp host, but I am not sure how to do that. 1. make sure /etc/mail/sendmail.mc includes

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Neil Cherry
Alfred von Campe wrote: I have a stock CentOS 5 system as far as email (sendmail) is concerned that is on our corporate LAN. I am not trying to set up a mail server; I merely want our CentOS systems to be able to send out emails. This works as long as the recipient's domain is our local

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Kevin Thorpe
It appears that our firewall is not allowing connection to outside MX hosts. I think I need to configure sendmail to forward emails to our local smtp host, but I am not sure how to do that. Best to do that anyway. Some e-mail providers will only accept e-mail from known mail servers

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Alfred von Campe
Thanks for all the quick responses. Enabling SMART_HOST as well as masquerading did the trick. I also had to install the sendmail-cf RPM, but everything appears to be working now. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread lingu
Hi. First of all check the connectivity from that server to the external domains like gmail,yahoo.com by doing telnet on port 25.if u get connected then then ur firewall is not blocking any outgoing port 25 connection. Then you have to check one more parmeter.If your domain on ur sendmail

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Alfred von Campe wrote: Thanks for all the quick responses. Enabling SMART_HOST as well as masquerading did the trick. I also had to install the sendmail-cf RPM, but everything appears to be working now. You CAN manage without sendmail-cf RPM by editing the config file by hand. I wouldn't