From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 12:55:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5090016A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from devonshire.cnchost.com (devonshire.concentric.net [207.155.248.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F7E43D1D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@i-tds.net) Received: from m73524 (adsl-68-78-78-181.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net [68.78.78.181]) by devonshire.cnchost.com id PAA22236; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:55:16 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.16] Errors-To: From: "dps" To: Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:58:55 -0600 Message-ID: <000901c3f72b$302632d0$0a02a8c0@m73524> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Sendmail Newbie Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:55:17 -0000 Hello~ Excuse the extreme nature of my newbieness, I will try and do my best here. I am using 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on i386. Basically, I am having trouble with sendmail. I know sendmail is running: $ ps -aux | grep sendmail root 97 0.0 0.8 3052 1552 ?? Ss Tue10PM 0:07.85 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) smmsp 100 0.0 0.8 2932 1436 ?? Is Tue10PM 0:00.13 sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail) I can go into pine, and send mail to other users on the system. i.e. mail dan@localhost from root@localhost. My problem is that I cannot send mail out to the Internet. It appears it just goes into a black hole and its gone. I am not really too sure even how to monitor the sendmail log. I found some sendmail logs in /var/log, but when I tail them, they are either blank or jibberish. My BSD server does not have a domain or a real IP. (for example the computer name is groovy.sockthief.com which cannot be resolved from the Internet, and the IP of the machine is 192.168.2.4). I have one of those cheap-o Linksys DHCP DSL/Cable routers that is acting as a network gateway. I have read through the sendmail configuration section of the FreeBSD handbook, and it appears that everything should pretty much be working fine out of the box. I guess my questions are: 1) How to I monitor the sendmail log 2) Do I need to do anything special with respect to DNS to get sendmail to be able to send outside of localhost Any help, guidance, de-dumbifying would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ~Dan