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setting up sendmail to forward?

From	no.top.post@gmail.com
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.networking, comp.mail.sendmail
Subject	setting up sendmail to forward?
Date	2011-04-25 10:56 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ip3jvu$pte$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I've never done any network configuration.
My prompt reads: [root@localhost MailTxAuth]#
Often at boot I see <you have new mail @ xyz> which I've read by cat <xyz>.

I've got this app. running on Linux, which accesses the internet, but
its mail-client can't do my ISPs latest send-authorisation.

Apparently this instalation's only MTA is sendmail.
Please give some instructions on how to proceed.
sendmail's man gives only options, for somebody who already knows how to start.

Peter E. wrote:-
> If a Mail Transfer Agent, MTA, is running on your Linux 
> system you don't move a text file from ETHO to Linux and 
> then send the emessage from a Mail User Agent in Linux.  
> Your ETHO system sends the emessage directly to the MTA 
> which forwards it to the ISP.  It's just a matter of 
> configuring exim or Postfix properly on the Linux system.
> 
I like that idea.  Also, if I learned how to network-configure,
I could do some 'local' testing of eg. send-confirmation, 
instead of dialing into my ISP to test each step.

> Exim is still the stock MTA in Debian.  I proferred 
> working with Postfix when it was necessary but it was an 
> optional installation.
> 
This present installation has got 'sendmail' which is 
reputed to be a monster.  I'll try to get some advice
from the 'network USEnetGroup' how to configure it
if I fail after reading the man.
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Well I didn't even know where to START after reading the man,
but I liked the /etc/mail/helpfile which explained the:
HELO EHLO AUTH. I read it with `less` and `sendmail help` 
just hangs.

== TIA.

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setting up sendmail to forward? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-25 10:56 +0000
  Re: setting up sendmail to forward? Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> - 2011-04-25 18:12 +0000

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