One other possibility: you should have SMTP service provided
by your ISP.  You can set up sendmail to use your ISP's mail
delivery service. One tool that may be helpful in setting it
all up is a utility called install-sendmail.  Go to
http://freshmeat.net and do a search for "install-sendmail".
Check the homepage to get the version that matches your
version of sendmail.  I believe that you also need procmail
and fetchmail as well as the sendmail-cf and m4 packages
installed. Here's what I have:

sendmail-cf-8.9.3-9mdk
sendmail-8.9.3-9mdk
m4-1.4-13mdk
procmail-3.13.1-3mdk
fetchmail-5.0.3-2mdk

The install-sendmail script asks you questions (at the command
line) about how you want to set up your mail server, then
generates the necessary config files for you. It has worked
beautifully for me, as I am certainly no sendmail guru. One
good way to test it is to install the mailx package and
from the command line on the mailserver you can use the "mail"
command to test out sendmail.

Chris


Wizaerd wrote:
> 
> Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information...
> I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US
> West VDSL.  The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time
> because of the DHCP.  I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC
> card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a
> gateway/router/firewall to the internet.  So because of the DHCP connection,
> I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail.
> 
> On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the process of
> learning PHP.  However, one of the things I want to do is convert my
> ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could send myself
> email notifications during the testing period (so when I do copy this app to
> a real server it would work as expected...)...
> 
> Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
> using DNS and having a static IP?  Or better yet is there a way to use
> sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?
> 
> Thanx!
> 
> Joseph (Joe) Sheble
> a.k.a. Wizaerd
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