Questions about sendmail

[Craig White]

Not sure if this is what you are asking but I see Sendmail typically putting
mail into the /var/spool/mail/xxx  path where xxx is the local user.

To use sendmail for sending mail, you only need to configure it to allow
relaying for specific hosts.

To use sendmail for receiving mail, you would need either a) your own domain
name with 2 DNS servers to point MX (mail exchanger) to your computer or b)
have someone else with a domain add your 'zone' to their domain and still
point the MX record for hosts in your zone to your computer.

Craig

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> der.hans
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 9:59 PM
> To: Phx Linux Group
> Subject: Re: Questions about sendmail
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Wizaerd wrote:
>
> > While testing it on this local machine, I'd like to be able to
> send an email
> > notification to three various email addresses I have (through
> work and other
> > domains I own and are hosted with web hosting ISPs...).
> However the mail()
> > in PHP requires a sendmail directory instead of an SMTP server,
> so am not
>
> Does it require a sendmail dir or a sendmail binary? e.g. is it making a
> call to /usr/sbin/sendmail? If so you don't need sendmail running. Also
> you could use the "sendmail" executable from qmail, postfix, exim or
> whatever mailer you want to use.
>
> > quite sure how to proceed...  I've never used sendmail before
> at all, and
> > have an O'Reily book for it, but it's confusing as h*ll...
>
> Ain't it? :)
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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