RH 7.1 and sendmail - why won't it work?

[Keith M]

OK, I used to use RH 6.1, and all I had to do was put my domain in /etc/sendmail.cw and the users on that computer received e-mail to that domain. No big deal. Then I upgraded to RH 7.0. There was no sendmail.cw file, instead there was a file in /etc/mail called local-host-names where I put my domain name and it worked. Again, no big deal. But now I put on RH 7.1 and it just doesn't it work. Sunday LILO freaked out, so I was forced to do an upgrade to 7.1 and that's when my trouble started.

Does anybody know how to receive e-mail to one domain on your own computer? This should be simple but everytime I start reading this stuff I see all sorts of things about virtual domains and ldap and things I know nothing about and don't care about.

[Joshie the CK]

One thing that was suggested to me, and made my life a LOT easier:

get webmin. :-) http://www.webmin.com/webmin/

Should make life easier..
I know it worked for me.. :D

[tolstoy]

I'm not sure how you set up sendmail, or administer it, but I can say from experience to avoid using Linuxconf at all costs. I'm running a RH 7.0 mail server and if I even think to my self the word "linuxconf," sendmail rolls over and dies. Webmin has been good to me, and as posted above give it a try, if, like many of us, you're not a sendmail guru.

[ 24 May 2001: Message edited by: tolstoy ]

[Keith M]

Thanks guys, I'll give webmin a try. I think 7.1 replaced the sendmail.mc file, and I just don't know what I need to change in there. I removed one line that forced it to receive only from the local system(127.0.0.1), but that didn't affect it all. If webmin can't fix it, I'll remove the package and install the rpm that came with 7.0.

I've never used linuxconf for sendmail, and I recently saw something from RH that says not to for recent versions of sendmail. They should either fix it, or dump it, it doesn't make sense to put that in there if it doesn't work.