Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:58:55 -0600 From: "dps" <dan@i-tds.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Sendmail Newbie Question Message-ID: <000901c3f72b$302632d0$0a02a8c0@m73524>
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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
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