Well, the FQDN errors can be fixed by making up an extension for your hostname (i.e. RAID-Server.not.important will work). As for actually using sendmail, I have a debian system, and it "Just works". I type "mail [email protected]" and it asks for the subject and body, and it sends, arriving in my inbox faster than I can switch windows and click refresh.
So, sorry, but my only experience with sendmail is as described, I've never delved any deeper. On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, and no, I don't have a machine with an smtp server on the LAN. > > On Dec 26, 6:40 am, "Daniel Eggleston" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think KMail talks to the SMTP server; without sendmail. Unless you > have > > the option to use sendmail instead... > > Do you know for a fact that the emails are not leaving the server? Maybe > the > > ISP is dropping them (i.e. if your 'from' address is a verified host like > > yahoo, they may not accept the email from non-yahoo ip's.) Do you have a > > machine on the local network with an smtp server so you could try sending > > there? > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:54 AM, lrhorer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Merry Christmas, everyone. > > > > > I have mdadm set up managing an array, and I want to have it send e- > > > mail to my ISPs SMTP server when an event occurs. I know the basic > > > method for creating an e-mail using --follow, but I can't get the e- > > > mails to actually leave the server. I think I have sendmail set up > > > properly - sendmail is nothing if not arcane and confusing - but the e- > > > mails never go anywhere. I can fire up Kmail, and it is able to send > > > mail to the SMTP server. If I have sendmail set up (and not exim), > > > doesn't Kmail use sendmail as its mail agent? If so then sendmail is > > > working. If not, then maybe I need to take a different tack. In the > > > mean time, how can I specify to which server sendmail is supposeed to > > > send the message? I don't see a syntax for that or a way to set it up > > > in sendmail's configuration. > > > > -- > > > > Daniel > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
