"phobet-winterchan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No bother at all.
First of all, thank you.
At the moment I found the solution for my problem (i.e. proper Linux mail
configuration with dial-up PPP ), what remains is to understand it ;-)
Just in the case it will be useful for someone else.
I've found 2 links that address the problem directly.
http://www.cysonet.com/%7ewouter/offline-mailing.html
This one gives a sendmail.mc example with concise explanation,
http://members.xoom.com/xeer/software/index.html
This one gives no explanation, but provides a perl script for sendmail
configuration named "install-sendmail".
Eventually I used that script, and now my mail works like a charm.
It seems that 2 steps were crucial:
1. Do not let my ignorant fingers touch sendmail.cf at all. Rather,
more high-level sendmail.mc should be edited, and then sendmail.cf should
be produced from sendmail.mc
2. In sendmail.mc use masquerade with 'masquerade-envelope'
and genericstable.
Mike Fieschko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> already wrote about this 3 Nov 1999,
but I can understand the meaning only now.
> > However, I noticed that if I send a message to a wrong address ( due
> > to a typo, for instance ), the message is silently disappear, i.e.
> > I do not get a usual report from mail server back.
> Are you sure you're receiving *all* of your messages?
Now - I hope so :) But before applying install-sendmail I just defined
"smart relay host" in /etc/sendmail.cf without changing anything else in
the default LM6.1 configuration.
I think that mailserver still saw me as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]",
so in the case of a problem the server tried to report it to this address,
i.e. nowhere.
Tima.
