https://www.kevinlee.io/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Sendmail 2026-05-06T07:35:40Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.16.0 https://www.kevinlee.io/w/index.php?title=Sendmail&diff=501&oldid=prev 2013-03-30T10:32:27Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 10:32, 30 March 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>However, if you use gmail linking to your server as the email server, do not put that. Otherwise sendmail will send an email to your server instead of the gmail server.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>However, if you use gmail linking to your server as the email server, do not put that. Otherwise sendmail will send an email to your server instead of the gmail server.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If you are using an external email service like Google Apps and when the server sends the sends an email, it doesn't send the email properly or when it sends an email to any eamil address that has the same domain name as the server and it's suppsed to be delivered to the Google Apps', yet the local server gets it, try the following instructions.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Add the domain name to /etc/hosts. It should come first. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># e.g.) your.domain.com</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">$ vim /etc/hosts </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">127.0.0.1&nbsp; your.domain.com&nbsp; localhost.localdomain&nbsp; localhost&nbsp; hostname</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Add the following lines to the end of the &lt;code&gt;/etc/mail/sendmail.mc&lt;/code&gt; file.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">define(`MAIL_HUB', `your.domain.com.')dnl</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">define(`LOCAL_RELAY', `your.domain.com.')dnl</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Then reconfigure and restart sendmail.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">$ sendmailconfig </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">$ service sendmail restart </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Kevin https://www.kevinlee.io/w/index.php?title=Sendmail&diff=53&oldid=prev 2008-10-03T13:27:37Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 13:27, 3 October 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>127.0.0.1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; localhost yourdomain.com</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>127.0.0.1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; localhost yourdomain.com</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, if you use gmail linking to your server as the email server, do not put that. Otherwise sendmail will send an email to your server instead of the gmail server.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Kevin https://www.kevinlee.io/w/index.php?title=Sendmail&diff=52&oldid=prev 2008-10-03T11:40:43Z

<p>New page: <a href="/wiki/Category:Network" title="Category:Network">Category:Network</a> ==Known Problem== *If Linux stalls on reloading mail transport agent with the following message. &lt;pre&gt; * Reloading Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail &lt;/pre&gt; Add the...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Network]]<br /> <br /> ==Known Problem==<br /> *If Linux stalls on reloading mail transport agent with the following message.<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> * Reloading Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Add the domain name of the computer where the sendmail is running to &lt;code&gt;/etc/hosts&lt;/code&gt; file<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> 127.0.0.1 localhost yourdomain.com<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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