[ale] Sendmail woes

[Jim Popovitch]

Most likely your email is being identified as originating at
whoever at home.computer.net instead of whoever at real.address.com and your ISP
doesn't like to relay mail from unknown domains.

To get around this you will have to setup a generics table, and reconfigure
sendmail.  The generics table just replaces a username like "jimpop" or
jimpop at home.computer.net with a real email address like
jimpop at rocketship.com

It's not too painful, and there is a HOW-TO about it here:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Sendmail-Address-Rewrite.html

If you want I can send you the files I used on my system to re-configure
sendmail.

-Jim

----- Original Message -----
 From: <JANINDRA at MS.NDCORP.COM>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 3:46 PM
Subject: [ale] Sendmail woes


> I have a home network setup that consists of 4 PCs.
>
> 1 - Linux (running apache, smb, sendmail, the works)
> 2 - Windows98
> 3 - Linux (bare minmum; used for logging)
> 4 - Linux (firewall/ gateway)
>
> I have no problems moving from machine to machine or sending mail from
Linux
> to Linux. I can happily cruise the web from any machine too. However when
I
> try to send mail from Linux to the Internet, my mail gets rejected. I can
> send mail from Windows to the Internet with no problems which makes me
> suspect my sendmail configuration is the culprit. What should I be looking
> for? Does it have something to do with masquarading?
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
>