Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:47:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: testing@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie: Sendmail doesn't work (how vague is that) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909041044340.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990904121635.007d4ec0@mail.9netave.net>
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 testing@tourneyland.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed FreeBSD, on a machine I want to be a web & mail server. A > friend actually did most of the install, which included sendmail. So far, > that machine doesn't seem to be receiveng email. I've tried sending to > root@167.44.32.82 (well that's not my real ip but you get the idea), and > nothing happened. That seems to me to be about as basic as it gets. I can > send out from that machine (both locally and to the outside world, i.e. > hotmail), but not receive. Why would that be? > > I think there's a clue, in that I just checked root's email, and it got > something that says "Mail received for refused hosts: (my ip address)" or > something like that. In other words, it looks like it's not configured to > accept email sent to itself. This seems weird, but I read in a book on Unix > S-A I bought that there's a file called sendmail.cw I think, that's the > list of supported hosts. That file doesn't exist. Is that my problem? Yuppers. in the file "/etc/sendmail.cf" there's a line: # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email Fw-o /etc/sendmail.cw you need to stick a file with all the hosts you want to accept mail as in that file. > I apologize if this is a mind-numbingly simple question - I'm a programmer, > but I know NOTHING about Unix, not even Linux (well I had it installed for > a few hours but that's it). I've been reading the BSD Handbook and my Unix > book but I couldn't find anything quite this simple. There's a lot of > encouragement to get the O'Reilly sendmail book, but I'm a bit spent out > for this month. You picked the right forum for your question, nothing to be sorry about. good luck, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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