On 18 Jan, Tony Green wrote:
>  On 18/01/2004, at 21:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I've turned on "FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)" and followed Tony
> > Green's other advice, and then got errors like this from mailq:
>  >
>  
>  I've been using sendmail for years now and I can safely say that the 
>  best option for you at the moment is to install postfix.

Especially since postfix is the default option for gentoo.  But I read
through the easy config file that you're supposed to edit and realised
that they expected you to know far more about mail than I do.  The
thing was completely impenetrable to me.

>  Sendmail is great if you really want to understand SMTP.  If you just 
>  want to get things working, use postfix.

I still reckon I would have spent more hours learning postfix from
scratch.  I wanted local delivery without a smart host, and mail with
masquerading to the outside world, and didn't see anything that I could
understand about doing that, in the config file.

>  You'll be much better off searching for a postfix howto than trying to 
>  crowbar sendmail into working.

Well, largely thanks to your assurance that it was okay to turn on the
accept_unresolvable_domains feature, I've got it working.

If I find out how to allow both UDP and TCP through port 53, I may even
be able to turn it off again. :-)

luke

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