Newbie needs sendmail help

[Leo Gonzales, Jr.]

Hi,

I don't know much about sendmail and I need to configure it for our company.
It seems that I can send messages to some other hosts and not to others. The
message I get back when it fails is shown below. Can someone tell me how I
can solve this problem?

Note: I'm on Solaris 8.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[root@picasso]# /usr/lib/sendmail -v leo.go...@provicint.com <sendstuff
WARNING: local host name (picasso) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
leo.go...@provicint.com... Connecting to inbound.registeredsite.com. via
esmtp...
220 imta04a2.registeredsite.com ESMTP server ready Wed, 26 Sep 2001
19:18:35 -0400
>>> EHLO picasso
250-imta04a2.registeredsite.com
250-HELP
250-XREMOTEQUEUE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 10485760
>>> MAIL From:<root@picasso> SIZE=28
553 picasso.registeredsite.com does not exist
leo.go...@provicint.com... Data format error
/dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter
Closing connection to inbound.registeredsite.com.
>>> QUIT
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Thanks in advance,
Leo

[no one]

Sendmail configuration is usually too complicated a procedure to get a
quick and dirty fix for from a newsgroup. Buy the Oreily Sendmail Book or
hire a consultant to setup sendmail for you.

-wiseguy

"Leo Gonzales, Jr." <jun.go...@home.com> wrote in
<aFws7.16204$8a.79...@news1.rsm1.occa.home.com>:

>Hi,
>
>I don't know much about sendmail and I need to configure it for our
>company. It seems that I can send messages to some other hosts and not
>to others. The message I get back when it fails is shown below. Can
>someone tell me how I can solve this problem?
>
>Note: I'm on Solaris 8.

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[James]

Dude, are you filling in, or are you going to be the permanent
mail administrator? If it's the latter, and you don't have a
specific requirement to run sendmail, you might consider a
different (and more reasonable) MTA. Personally, I am in
precess of tossing sendmail out the window in favor of
postfix. It's free, and the configuration file is flat text.
It's also quite secure.

Just a thought. No sense in getting stuck with sendmail if you
can avoid it. =)

Cheers,

-J

In comp.sys.sun.admin Leo Gonzales, Jr. <jun.go...@home.com> wrote:

> I don't know much about sendmail and I need to configure it for our company.

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[tuca...@whodis.org]

: postfix. It's free, and the configuration file is flat text.
: It's also quite secure.

: Just a thought. No sense in getting stuck with sendmail if you
: can avoid it. =)

i second the use of postfix. actually, i was going to reply to his
original post "run postfix" but i didn't want to be a smart ass :)

unless you are going to be doing some seriously whacked out stuff with
your server, there isn't much of anything simpler than a vanilla postfix
install.

[tuca...@whodis.org]

: As long as you never refer to yourselves as real Unix admins. ;-)

as that would shift the balance in my work-related responsibilities, you
will never find me claiming this title!

then again, the "unix admin" on our team asked me just today what editor i
used, and insisted that i help him install it when i told him ( pico,
which can be downloaded as a binary for god's sake )

[Frank Fegert]

cyp...@punk.net writes:
> In comp.sys.sun.managers tuca...@whodis.org wrote:
> # : postfix. It's free, and the configuration file is flat text.
> # : It's also quite secure.
> #
> # : Just a thought. No sense in getting stuck with sendmail if you
> # : can avoid it. =)
> #
> # i second the use of postfix. actually, i was going to reply to his
> # original post "run postfix" but i didn't want to be a smart ass :)
> #
> # unless you are going to be doing some seriously whacked out stuff with
> # your server, there isn't much of anything simpler than a vanilla postfix
> # install.

>
> As long as you never refer to yourselves as real Unix admins. ;-)

To achive this and to circumvent sendmail when you are still need
to do some "seriously whacked out stuff", you could also use qmail
(http://www.qmail.org). I don't actually use it, but heard good
things about it.

Regards,

Frank

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