Thanks for the correction Jim.  I wasn't sure if I could trust my memory...  In my 
brief foray with Sendmail, I thought I had seen a setting that had to be changed to 
allow Sendmail to send email outside the local network.  But, that was a year or two 
ago, and 3 email systems ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong.

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Jim Clarke
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:24 AM
To: CLUG General
Subject: RE: [clug-talk] Sendmail on Gentoo Linux



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-----
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> 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?
> 
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