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Hi,

I don't know much about sendmail and I need to configure it for our company.
It seems that I can send messages to some other hosts and not to others. The
message I get back when it fails is shown below.  Can someone tell me how I
can solve this problem?

Note: I'm on Solaris 8.

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WARNING: local host name (picasso) is not qualified; fix $j in config file

esmtp...
220 imta04a2.registeredsite.com ESMTP server ready Wed, 26 Sep 2001
19:18:35 -0400

Quote:>>> EHLO picasso

250-imta04a2.registeredsite.com
250-HELP
250-XREMOTEQUEUE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 10485760
553 picasso.registeredsite.com does not exist

/dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter
Closing connection to inbound.registeredsite.com.

Quote:>>> QUIT

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Thanks in advance,
Leo

Sendmail configuration is usually too complicated a procedure to get a
quick and dirty fix for from a newsgroup.  Buy the Oreily Sendmail Book or
hire a consultant to setup sendmail for you.

-wiseguy

Quote:>Hi,

>I don't know much about sendmail and I need to configure it for our
>company. It seems that I can send messages to some other hosts and not
>to others. The message I get back when it fails is shown below.  Can
>someone tell me how I can solve this problem?

>Note: I'm on Solaris 8.

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Dude, are you filling in, or are you going to be the permanent
mail administrator? If it's the latter, and you don't have a
specific requirement to run sendmail, you might consider a
different (and more reasonable) MTA. Personally, I am in
precess of tossing sendmail out the window in favor of
postfix. It's free, and the configuration file is flat text.
It's also quite secure.

Just a thought. No sense in getting stuck with sendmail if you
can avoid it. =)

Cheers,

-J

Quote:> I don't know much about sendmail and I need to configure it for our company.

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: postfix. It's free, and the configuration file is flat text.
: It's also quite secure.

: Just a thought. No sense in getting stuck with sendmail if you
: can avoid it. =)

i second the use of postfix.  actually, i was going to reply to his
original post "run postfix" but i didn't want to be a smart ass :)

unless you are going to be doing some seriously whacked out stuff with
your server, there isn't much of anything simpler than a vanilla postfix
install.

: As long as you never refer to yourselves as real Unix admins. ;-)

as that would shift the balance in my work-related responsibilities, you
will never find me claiming this title!

then again, the "unix admin" on our team asked me just today what editor i
used, and insisted that i help him install it when i told him ( pico,
which can be downloaded as a binary for god's sake )

To achive this and to circumvent sendmail when you are still need
to do some "seriously whacked out stuff", you could also use qmail
(http://www.qmail.org). I don't actually use it, but heard good
things about it.

Regards,

        Frank

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 Leela was as lonly as a frog! I could kick myself!"
"I'll do it for you! <kicks shinbone>"
"Ouuuh, thanks!"