[Gllug] sendmail and KMail config

[Jim Bailey]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:18:49AM +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> On Sunday 27 April 2003 00:05, Adrian McMenamin put fingers to keys and typed:
> > 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
> 
> Yeah, I recognise why they're being rejected, and I've managed to configure 
> KMail to use my ISP's SMTP server (which is how I've managed to send these 
> messages to the mailing-list), but I want to be able to send them to my 
> sendmail and have that forward them on to my ISP's server.  This way my 
> server can manage mail for my home network - I share a houes with two other 
> people and it'd be good if we could all route our mail through my server and 
> let it pass stuff on to my ISP when it wants to.
> 
> I would hope that these mesages don't look like spam at the moment - this is 
> probably as un-spam-like as they're likely to get :-)

They may not look like spam to you but to some mail servers including a
couple I look after would reject them as not having fully qualified
domain names.  See Postfix UCE controls for more information.

Peace Jim


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