[Gllug] sendmail and KMail config

[Richard Turner]

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.

I assume that I should set-up some kind of masquerading in sendmail so that 
messages routed through it appear to come from a valid domain - the one I'd 
use being rj-turner.freeserve.co.uk since that's the domain half of my real 
email address.  Is this correct?  I've tried using webmin to do this, but 
it's not made any difference.

It's interesting to note too that if I telnet to localhost:25 and send mail to 
my POP3 account that way it gets through no problem...

Cheers,

Richard.


-- 
Richard Turner

"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."


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