David,
The problems you have don't seem vsd related. They may be caused by the
sendmail.cf, aliases, acceess and so on provided by the freevsd's skel...
but your questions may be better asked on a sendmail group,
I'll give you some hints:
1. The sendmail.cw is just telling sendmail which domains it should delived
the mail locally. If a domain is not listed there, they're delivered via
smtp (i.e. to the relay listed in the dns for that domain).
2. Have a look at the anti-spam provisions of sendmail. You'll learn there
why sendmail refuses to deliver mail (i.e. relaying denied) and how to
properly configure it to deliver mail.
3. Take a stock redhat cf file and try to use that. Make sure you have the
stuff in /etc/mail (virtualtable, access, mailertable, domaintable and so
on). However, I suggest that you build your own.
4. Sendmail is started from virtuald, so you don't need to bind it to a
particular address. However, make sure that sendmail is not running on the
hosting server. In case of doubth, telnet to port 25 on the hosting server.
Sendmail will report the hostname in it's greetings message. It will say
either the hostname of the host or the hostname of the virtual.
5. I'll be digging in sendmail configurations in the next few days. May hit
your problem :-). I'm currently using rh7.
Dave.
