[CentOS] Sendmail not working

Sun Apr 19 18:26:47 UTC 2020
S.Bob <sbob at quadratum-braccas.com>

I have almost zero experience with sendmail.


I'd be willing to pay someone to set this up for me, interested? KNow of 
someone?




On 4/19/20 12:18 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am 19.04.2020 um 18:28 schrieb S.Bob:
>>
>> I installed sendmail via yum, but if I test it like this:
>>
>>
>> echo "Subject: sendmail test" | sendmail sbob at quadratum-braccas.com
>>
>>
>> I get a local mail on the server with this every time:
>
> [  ... ]
>
> Hi,
>
> your provided sendmail.mc shows that you have done zero customization. 
> So please let me ask: do you have experience to setup and operate an 
> MTA and especially Sendmail?
>
> I am asking because that's not trivial and as you cannot judge about 
> the error you are getting implies that you lack essential information. 
> It is ok not to know how to run an MTA, but then you shouldn't.
>
> At least you should configure Sendmail as a null-client. Do as Jason 
> wrote and configure the SMART_HOST of your ISP. Take care for proper 
> `' as those appear wrong in Jason's post. And make sure that the 
> sendmail-cf package is installed so that the sendmail.cf can be 
> rebuild after sendmail.mc customizations.
>
> Alexander
>
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