Mark Schoonover spake the following on 7/21/2006 9:02 AM:

William L. Maltby wrote:

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Well, I tried you suggestion to my previous email, and they didn't work. Now, I'm sure it's because I'm not experienced in sendmail.

Me too! But I did some reading, looked at things,... and do have an extensive *general* background. So there's probably some other piece of the puzzle that's not right or is different.

There's lots of experienced folks here though. I bet if you posted in the form of some background, a starting description of the pertinent components in your setup, snippets of logs, etc. they would jump in and help.

At least, that's been my observation. Fridays may be the exception though.

I'll also try and help, within my limits.

Bill,

Thanks for the offer of help! Time is short. It's going to take me about an hour to write up a SMTP email injection script - barring any crazy interruptions. Trying to tackle sendmail will take much longer, time I just don't have right now. Once the script is done, I'll gladly post it to the list for others to use... I find it hard to believe though that no one else has created a script like this. Using Krugle didn't turn up much...

Mark

Sendmail has been moving mail around the planet for many years. There are only 2 basic things that need to be done to a stock RedHat (or clone) install to make mail flow: 1) Remove the restriction in the sendmail.mc of only sending mail through the local loop interface. 2) Make sure the machine has a resolvable FQDN. If only sending mail locally in a network, it just has to resolve on your nameservers, but it has to resolve somewhere.

On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:02 -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote:

Thanks for the offer of help! Time is short. It's going to take me about an hour to write up a SMTP email injection script - barring any crazy interruptions. Trying to tackle sendmail will take much longer, time I just don't have right now. Once the script is done, I'll gladly post it to the list for others to use... I find it hard to believe though that no one else has created a script like this. Using Krugle didn't turn up much...

The reason no one else has written that script is that the stock sendmail 'just works' as shipped for sending mail. And if you have something odd locally, it is usually a one-line edit in sendmail.mc to accommodate it.