Bug 89878

Summary:	Suggestion for RHL-RG (sendmail chapter)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Razvan Sandu <rsandu>
Component:	rhl-rg	Assignee:	Andrius Benokraitis <andriusb>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	eriley
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Razvan Sandu 2003-04-29 09:20:18 UTC

Description of problem:

Configuring Sendmail


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


rhl-rg(EN)-8.0-Print-RHI (2002-08-14T22:29-0400))


Expected results:

Please include more detailed information about configuring Sendmail (editing the
sendmail.mc file) for machines that aren't members of an official domain.

The problem reffers to using such a Linux machine for:

- sending e-mail for all users defined in /etc/password, with a valid From: and
Reply-To: address (both header & envelope)

- explaining how to correctly configure sendmail (headers & envelope) if one is
defined as "johndoe" on a machine wihout an official domain and has a mailbox
"jdoe" located at the ISP

Some programs, like FaxMail (included in older versions of Red Hat Linux),
return an error if a fax-by-mail is sent from an e-mail address that has no
valid SMTP envelope.

Regards,
Razvan <rsandu>

Comment 1 Johnray Fuller 2003-04-29 22:48:46 UTC

I am not sure I understand what you want here. 

1> You want to configure sendmail on a host that is not part of a official
domain? Explain what you mean by this. Do you mean your ISP's domain?

2> You want to send emails for folks in /etc/password w/o a domain name?

3> You want to configure sendmail to talk to an ISP mail server and map a
particular ISP user to local accounts?

This seems like something that is an edge case configuration. Most mail clients
can handle this sort of thing.

Anyway, verify that I understand what you are asking and we'll go from there.

Thanks,
Johnray

Comment 2 Johnray Fuller 2004-08-24 21:33:54 UTC

Still waiting on information.

In the mean time, I am transferring this to the new maintainer.

J

Comment 3 Andrius Benokraitis 2004-10-11 16:42:27 UTC

Updated for RHEL4 Reference Guide.