[ale] Bellsouth Sendmail Fix

Jeff Brodnax tullyarcher at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 2 15:14:34 EDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:00:09AM -0400, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Stephen Touset wrote:
> 
> > I have no clue how sendmail handles problems in the configuration file
> > (whether or not it simply discards the value or refuses to init), but if
> > it does the former, this could be why it works for you.
> 
> Invoking it from the command line will generally display errors in the cf
> file. Sometimes it ignores them...sometimes it fails to start.
> Fortunately, it almost always gives a line number.

I tried sending email to a friend on aol without the smarthost and it
was rejected, stating I had a dynamic IP.  I added the
[mail.bellsouth.net] SMART_HOST and it was delivered with no problem, it
was picked up by bellsouth and delivered with no problems.

Jeff
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