Gerry Doris wrote:
> I've essentially admitted defeat on using the 400 P2 as a linux
> system too. Perhaps one day but not now. It got so bad that if
> I left the room for a beer it would be magically running win98
> when I came back...and everyone swore that it was always running
> win98.
Life sure does get complicated doesn't it?
I do apologise for making you feel you had to justify your position. I guess
your story has taught me something anyway.
> I have been using smtp with Netscape and xfmail for mail on the
> 486. Both work just fine through the wingate proxy. However, I
> haven't found a way to run sendmail at all. There doesn't seem
> to be a way that I can find to configure it properly. I even
> bought the O'Reilly sendmail book but it's too much for me.
I reckon the 'Bat Book' is only any use for full-time mail server
administrators.
> Setting up sendmail is just an intellectual exercise. I just
> thought I'd have some fun and learn a little more about how to
> use it. I just didn't think it was going to have so much fun!!!
And so is sendmail.cf. Maybe we should be looking at this new sendmail
replacement from IBM...
Have you already set up the proxy ports somewhat like I said in my last post on
this thread, or are you explicitly telling Netscape to connect to a proxy? For
this to work universally you need to do the proxy translation at a system-wide
level like I suggested, and hide these shenanigans from the clients entirely
(not all client software is proxy-enabled). In theory, _if_ your gateway
software provides an SMTP proxy both ways then changing the default SMTP port
number and defining the SMTP host where required as the gateway itself should be
enough for sendmail's default configuration to work.
Ralph
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