>>>>> "Gagan" == Gagan Grewal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gagan> Hi Folks! I want to know wether sendmail can/should be
Gagan> used from a PC or not ?
Can: sure. Should: matter of opinion. I use it, Dan Bernstein
doesn't. *Shrug*
Gagan> I was able to send mails over to internet using sendmail
Gagan> from my PC after clobbering a couple of lines in the
Gagan> sendmail.cf. It works just fine ... but seems a little
Gagan> slow.
Bad idea. If you have to clobber lines, cd /etc/mail ; edit
sendmail.mc ; make sendmail.cf
Don't touch sendmail.cf directly as far as possible.
Gagan> I want to know wether I can use sendmail from my PC to
Gagan> transfer mails over to an SMTP server (having a registered
Gagan> address) such as VSNL since I have a valid mail account on
Gagan> that server ... and let that server do the remaining of
Gagan> sending job. ( Like one usually does using programs like
Gagan> Outlook, Ximian, KMail, Mutt etc. )
Theoretically, yes. However I believe VSNL mail servers will not
relay mail for clients unless the envelope From address in the message
is of the form <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I could be wrong, can someone confirm
this?
You could also try the MTNL dial-up mail servers, as far as I remember
they will relay mail any and all messages for MTNL dial-up users.
Gagan> Has anybody configured sendmail on his PC in order to relay
Gagan> outbound/internet bound mails through an SMTP server ?
Uh, just a few billion people, I guess :)
Gagan> I tried SMART_HOST and nullclient ... but doesn't work.
``Doesn't work''? Did you switch your PC on? <g,d&r>
-- Raju
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