On Sun December 10 2006 10:42 pm, Tim wrote: > You'll want to configure your sendmail so that the address it posts > *FROM* is recognised as valid to the outside world. No well-set-up ISP > SMTP server is going to let you send an e-mail apparently coming from > root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, no matter what "TO" address you've used. > > Do you know how to configure sendmail? If so, that information should > get you started. Or you can read about the masquerade options, to > figure it out. Write back if you need to. I've moved in the past 6 months into my first home - after nearly 60 years of living as a renter, I'm now dealing with all the viccisitudes of home ownership. Since I posted my problem, we had a pretty nasty cold front move in to my area, and I've been dealing with multiple problems having to do with containing heat in a structure that was built over 40 years before I was born, so I haven't had much time to work on this. What's puzzling to me is that the configuration I'd been using no longer works. I tried editing the sendmail configuration file, but I'm not sure I did it correctly - those entries weren't so self evident. For example, the line that was suggested be edited by someone looks like this: dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs to dnl # be sent out through an external mail server: dnl # dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.your.provider')dnl First, I don't understand what those 'dnl' acronyms stand for Secondly, it seems to be saying to uncomment a line that's already uncommented Third, I did try putting my provider in place of the 'smtp.your.provider' but that didn't accomplish anything More puzzling to me is that denyhosts is working - it sends out an email each time it blacklists a host that's trying to log on to my system via ssh, and I'm getting those just fine But, that's as far as I've been able to get - still working on it. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
