Once again, I turn to the Linux Gurus in this forum.:-)

[Russ]

I'm trying to install the Sendmail RPM in Linux Mandrake and I get the following message:

Dependency problem:
sendmail conflicts with postfix-19991231-3mdk

Now, I could tell it not to check dependencies, if I actually knew what the hell that means. But, I'm more then a little worried that I might be screwing something up!

Russ, NCNE

 

[nexus9]

I believe that postfix is another mail server program. If you aren't gonna use it, remove it and install the sendmail package...

-Nexus9

 

[Russ]

Bingo! Of course, when I went to remove Postfix, I got three more dependencies errors. All of them traced to mail-related packages that I don't need, so I nuked those puppies too.

Thanks!

Russ, NCNE

 

[Russ]

Cool beans! I just sent myself and eMail from my own server. And, it worked!

Russ, NCNE

 

[Michael]

Russ - Again, make sure that sendmail is locked down. Improperly installed sendmail is the #1 source of spam.

Glad that you're becoming a real Linux guru.

I bet you like to price you paid for it as well!

Michael

 

[Russ]

Michael,

Guru? HeHe. I'd be completely lost without the people at these forums!

I set up the DNS zone file today for one of my names/IP addresses. We'll see how much of a guru I am once it propogates. I've got a hunch that I'll be beating on that for a while.:Q

Russ, NCNE

 

[Rendus]

Whoa. Sendmail in less than 6 hours?

Sendmail scares even ME Be sure to turn relaying off (no, I don't know how to do that )

 

[Russ]

Rendus,

Relaying is disallowed by default. You actually have to add "trusted" users in order for anyone to relay.

And, I'm nowhere near completely setup yet. I've just been doing some outgoing tests. I also still need to update the MX record in the zone file, but I'm not doing that until I find out if it resolves correctly.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Dougal]

Sendmail is one of the few things I set up on my Linux box in the lab at work that just worked. Granted it's not exposed to the real world but for the local machines in our lab it's great. Plus, I even managed to get routing to work for a couple of extra ficticious domains. Granted it took me a couple of days for that one but it works. Linux is cool

 

[nexus9]

If you want some real fun, try setting up virtual domains with mailertables and rewriting addresses. Man, the sendmail.cf is _UGLY_ <grin>. Granted, sendmail is way better than it was even a year ago.

Russ - now that you've got sendmail set up, you might want to download the qpopper pop3 server. It's very easy to install.

-Nexus9

 

[Poof]

Yikes Russ!!!! You actually got into Bind and starting putzing around with DNS??????

My hats off to you!!!!!

And yeah, there are a bunch of addons like that qpopper, et. al., which are kinda cool. Of course you can get all fancy and setup HP Openmail for Linux or something...

 

[cory]

sendmail used to be even worse years ago.

it used to have relay turned on by default and some other crap.

it is a lot easier now but can still be a pain.

 

[linuxboy]