On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 23:19 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > What's puzzling to me is that the configuration I'd been using no longer > works. If it worked through an external system (i.e. your ISP's mail server), perhaps there was a change at the other end? But firewalling, and other networking issues, at your own end might be the explanation. > 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 I can't remember what it stands for, but what it means is to ignore the rest of that line. It's the same as using # in other configuration files to "comment out" options. To enable that line, you'd remove the one at the start (you must leave the one at the end). define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.example.com')dnl Now, any mail that has to go out of your system to be delivered (i.e. is not local), will go through that SMTP server. The "smart" part about it is supposed to be determining what goes out, and what it handles itself. Other configuration parameters of sendmail determine that. > 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 Gee, an e-mail for each incursion? You could get swamped. -- Test running FC6 & FC5, and still using FC4. I delete all private mail, unseen. I read from the list.
