[ale] New User: Sendmail and DNS server questions

[Jim Popovitch]

Ernie, I know sendmail intimately (I have spent many a night getting fu**ed
by it).  Sendmail is not something for the faint-at-heart to just jump into.
Sendmail is a good MTA if you are going to be delivering email for others
(hundreds/thousands/millions?), but it is not really a good choice for home
use.  I would suggest that you look into exim or another MTA.

Don't get me wrong, I would love for you to learn and use sendmail.  BUT,
it's just not something you can learn/setup/secure/admin in an email or two.
There is a HUGE problem on the internet with poorly configured home
mailservers.  Please make sure that you don't contribute to that problem.

Having said that... look in /var/log/maillog for any errors, and post them
here or google for related info.

Best wishes,

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Ernie
> Sent: Thursday, 21 August, 2003 19:01
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] New User: Sendmail and DNS server questions
>
>
> Guys,
>
> I'm looking here for help on setting up some things.
> I'm running a webserver and mail server here at my home.
> I've been running windows applications to do these and am interested
> in some greater functionality with sendmail (virus scanning and
> decent spam
> filtering)
> apache (hosting virutal domains) and local caching of DNS resolutions.
>
> I've installed RedHat v.9 on a fairly powerful box that I built up
> specifically for this purpose.
>
> I'm fairly well versed in Windows 2000 and other platforms but
> very weak on unix and linux.
>
> I've been using webmin to set up sendmail but can't seem to
> get it going. I've tried editing the sendmail.mc file but no joy.
> So, I'm not sure where my problems reside.
>
> My first test of the my setup of sendmail was to try to connect to the
> server
> from another computer on the local network here.  No joy.  I can ping but
> get
> no connect.  Any idea of where to start??
>
> Thanks, Ernie
>
>
>
>
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