[Gllug] sendmail and KMail config

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Saturday 26 April 2003 23:50, Richard Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now I know I'm probably asking something that's pretty easy to fix, but
> I've really got little idea about sendmail and I don't know where to start.
>
> I want to configure KMail to route outgoing messages through sendmail
> running locally (on the same box).  That should be easy in KMail - there
> are practically no options to confuse me - but all the test messages I've
> sent to my POP3 accounts have bounced.  The messages bounce because an SMTP
> server along the way rejects them - it can't verify my email address as
> being valid. This is hardly surprising since the address it's trying to
> validate is richard at melkor.zygous.co.uk, i.e. richard at localhost, and that
> isn't an Internet email address.
>
The simplest way is configure sendmail to use a 'smarthost' - which most 
likely will be your isp's smtp server. Google on that and I am sure you will 
find out how you can do it.

Your emails are being rejected because they look quite like spam at the 
moment!

Adrian


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