umm... sendmail is a pain!

[airedale]

All I am trying to do is get sendmail to work, so that I can have it mail the IP address of one computer to another.

I have tried this line:
sendmail -s airedale@mail.com > ip_config

the ip_config is the file I am trying to send. Well it sends it, but then it bounces it back saying that there was an error, and that the hostname has to be real. Well, I don't know exactly what I need to do to get this file emailed out of my box!

Note: I have not messed with any of the sendmail config files or anything, so if I missed something please tell me!

[bdg1983]

sendmail -s airedale@mail.com > ip_config

Shouldn't that be sendmail -s airedale@mail.com < ip_config? Just a guess.

[Pierre Lambion]

Hi,

I never got sendmail working (and don't need it) but I used sometimes ago qmail. It seems to be much easier to setup.

The simplest solution would probably be ssmtp. It's the simplest smtp mailer (you can use it with mutt for instance).

P.

[airedale]

could I use either of those programs to send a file to me on a scheduled interval? I wanted to use sendmail to do that.

I also have read somewhere that sendmail is not a final delivery agent, what exactly does that mean? :confused: