reply to mails through this account(i use pine)...i dont use the universities SMTP server since it has some rcpthosts(i am really very new to sendmail and how it works) error thingi.
Maybe if you explain this error, we can help here too. You would probably still need to install a local MTA instead. I would recommend nullmailer(http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/) if you only plan to relay your outgoing mails to an university mail host.
I have very little experience with sendmail, which personally, I wouldnt touch even with a long pole because there are so many *much* more sane replacements available. But again, that is a different topic altogether.
I have no clue why you decide to replace exim - the standard email server on debian.
anyways i have installed and configured sendmail on my machine and then tried to sendmail.pine shows that it is sending the mail..even though it takes it a while and it actually says it has sent the message out...however i recieve no message(i am mailing back to myself).i do not
Ok. for one, do you have your hostname correctly put in the /etc/hosts file? Also, are the DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf ok? The reason behind this is that in most cases, sendmail tries to resolve the host of the sender.
Also what does a check in /var/log/maillog say? Any change in this file after pine sends its mail?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha/sendmail.cf
I am also running a firewall which i created using firestarter and i only opened up ports 22(ssh),80(http) and ftp(i dont know exactly what port that is..22/23?).
21 for control and 20 for ftp-data i think.
Outgoing mails should not have a problem with the firewall.
- Sandip
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