By default sendmail certainly does allow you to send email, however you will need to edit your sendmail.mc file to recieve mail. As well as tweak the necessary files under your /etc/mail and edit your /etc/aliases file if you are using that one for aliases. You will see reference to this in your sendmail.mc. Then you can build your sendmail.cf file from your sendmail.mc file and restart the daemon.
cheers, Jim On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:16:35 -0700, Shawn wrote > Sendmail by default will not allow sending of email (if I'm remembering > right). > > I think you need to tweak Sendmail's config files some to make this happen. > However, this isn't a Gentoo specific issue (or so it appears at > first glance). Perhaps someonelse on the list who knows Sendmail > could offer more detail? > > Hopefully this at least points you in the right direction. > > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Andrew Graupe > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:40 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: [clug-talk] Sendmail on Gentoo Linux > > I have successfully emerged sendmail on my gentoo box. It is > running, but I cannot use it to send mail. When pine tries to send > mail via sendmail, I get the following error: "SMTP Greeting Error > 421: SMTP connection went away". I am at my wit's end about what to > do, having googled in vain. > > Any ideas on what might be causing this? > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
