Hi, you dont need to remove sendmail to install postfix, just install postfix, but be sure to go to ntsysv and make that postfix be the one to come up on boot and not sendmail. that is all regards, Guillermo. On 7/15/06, Mark Schoonover <schoon at amgt.com> wrote: > > Thanks Guillermo. The thing is, I can send test emails outside my domain > no problem. I can't send emails to my internal smtp server from any CentOS > system on my internal network. I discovered that I didn't have an MX record > in tinydns for my internal network, so I added that. After testing, no > changes - any email that's destined to any address to my domain bounces with > the error message listed below. > > I'm not a sendmail person, would rather do without it, but I don't think I > can simply remove it from CentOS. I could install postfix, or qmail and see > how that works, but it's serious overkill for sending simple emails > internally... Had hopes ssmtp would work, but that doesn't either. Works on > Gentoo systems, just not CentOS. > > A hair puller that's for sure, but I'll keep banging on it until it works. > > Thanks for all the ideas, if anyone can think of anything else, I'll try > it! > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Guillermo Garron [mailto:guillermo.fedora at gmail.com] > *Sent:* Saturday, July 15, 2006 7:48 PM > *To:* CentOS mailing list > *Subject:* Re: [CentOS] Emailing from Command Line > > Hi, > > maybe you should try using an externa smtp to send you the emails. > And use sendmail as a client of that other smtp, your ISP smtp. > > after having that configured you could try to send emails somewhere else, > @ yahoo.com or @gmail.com as suggested here. > > regards, > > Guillermo Garron > > > On 7/14/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > > > > Mark Schoonover wrote: > > > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > >> Mark Schoonover wrote: > > >>> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > >>> 550 5.1.2 <admins at amgt.com >... Host unknown (Name server: amgt.com: > > >>> no data +known) > > >>> > > >> is sendmail aware of your actual manchine hostname and howto handle > > >> emails for this domain ? > > > > > > Beats me, I'm a qmail guy, not sendmail. The part I'm confused about > > is > > > ssmtp should handle things w/o an MTA running... > > > > sendmail on the local machine should know what the hostname is. its > > possible that ssmtp isnt where the problem is but the smtp hander on the > > Rx end of things. Try sending emails elsewhere ? to an @gmail.com maybe > > ? > > > > Alternatively, have you tried nut ? it should be available in most > > repo's. Does a fairly good job of sending emails from the command line ( > > and is what I tend to use ) > > > > -- > > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060716/59f5341f/attachment-0005.html>