Re: Mailer Connections

[Peter <pfheiss@philonline.com>]

Thanks Riley and Ray

pfheiss said:
>> How do I revert back that I can mail again with any mail program
>> especially exmh and with any ISP?


rhw@InfraDead.Org said:
> As a result, the solution may be as simple as setting the hostname for
> your machine to match that of your preferred ISP by editing the file /
> etc/sysconfig/network and putting the full; hostname on the HOSTNAME=
> line, then rebooting your system. 

I did that now. It had localhost.localdomain. I changed if to "Peter".
Can there be more than one name and if so how are they separated?


rhw@InfraDead.Org said:
> Incidentally, sendmail normally tries to send all outgoing emails
> direct to the relevant delivery host, so the ISP you're dialled up
> with should make no difference at all.

That what I always thought and it always worked since RH5.2 w/o me doing 
anything.

ray@comarre.com said:
>  Also please  mention which MTA you are using (either look for
> something listening on  port 25 or find the smtp entry in /etc/
> inetd.conf, depending on which way your system is set up)

The file inetd.conf was absent. I found it as inetd.cof.rpmsave and copied it 
to /etc/inetd.conf. There is no smtp entry in this file.

This mail should go out now with my webcard ISP and using the program exmh.

Regards

-- 
Peter



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs