sendmail "loses" emails

[Rickead2000]

Hi,

I am trying to set up an RH8 box as a mailserver. When i send an email from any remote machine to an account on the server, the message is never received UNLESS the smtp mailserver specified in the mail client is that of the server.

Basically, sendmail appears to be ignoring all messages received from a remote server.

I am assuming this is something to do with spam rules??

Any ideas what's wrong?

[posterboy]

In RH9, and I think, also in 8, sendmail was distributed in such a way that any email arriving from locations other than localhost would not be handled. There is a line in the sendmail.mc beginning with DAEMON OPTIONS that must be commented out, and a new sendmail.cf generated. After that change, mail from anywhere will be handled.
HTH, Ray