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Re: [PLUG] Re: machines (and parts) to a good home
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On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 17:26, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Recap: upon upgrading sendmail today, I find that I can receive mail
> but not send it outside my local machine. It began to look like it
> might be a simple DNS issue to which sendmail had suddenly and newly
> become sensitive. This turned out to be true. Then sendmail started
> requesting authentication.
>
> Reading about authentication on sendmail.com, eyes bleary, I finally
> found out about the file /etc/mail/relay-domains. I added purple.com
> to that file and I was fine.
>
> Now it becomes clear that sendmail is not using the config file I
> thought it was, since it screws up the smarthost. That is, it gets it
> right, but it's supposed to queue it for uucp.
>
> Perhaps this is the moment when I should bite the bullet and install
> exim and tell it just to deliver mail normally without uucp. Incoming
> uucp should still work under exim's sendmail compatibility flags.
> Someday maybe I'll move that, too.
>
> The adventure continues...
I'd recommend postfix, personally.
Why the UUCP, BTW? Haven't heard of anyone using that in a number of
years now.
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