On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:37:04AM -0400, Ed Robitaille wrote:
> I am trying to configure 'sendmail'. ( could be a life-long quest )
> I am a home user who dials into a local ISP.
> Does anyone have a **simple*** ????.mc file ?
The question is, what are you trying to do? Sendmail is a complicated
beast that can do almost litterally anything. I've even heard of a
calculator "written in sendmail" using sendmail rewriting rules or
some such thing.
If you're trying to make your home machine act as a mail server for
you own domain, you probably don't really want to do this. For a
dial-up user, the complexity of setting up sendmail probably isn't
worth the effort, UNLESS you have dedicated, "always-on" dial-up.
People who send you mail will receive bounces while your system is
down, unless you get your ISP or someone else to spool mail for you
(i.e. act as an MX host) until it comes back up. You'd probably be
better off just using your ISP's mail server, in this case. This is
non-trivial to set up properly. You also need a static IP address, or
at least a static host name.
If all you want to do is configure sendmail on your desktop so that it
will send e-mail properly on the Internet, here again, it's still
probably preferable to simply use your ISP's SMTP server. This is
much easier to set up, but kinda pointless unless your favorite mailer
doesn't have a way to specify the SMTP server.
If you DO have dedicated dial-up, and you want your system to act as
your mail server, I can mail you my mc file. You'll need to
make a few small modifications.
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