[ale] sendmail -mindspring-ISP ignorance

[Armsby John-G16665]

I believe I have everything working.  I am writing from memory.  I will double check this evening.  It only took 32 tries this time....

1.  sendmail.cf is modified by having the domain line entry as:   DJjohnsplace.com
2.  sendmail.cf is modified by having the "smart" hosts entry as: DSmail.mindspring.com

my /etc/mail/access file has mindspring.com	RELAY #I am not sure this entry is relevant...
my resolv.conf file has domain mindspring.com		#I probably should have this as johnsplace
                        search mindspring.com		#artifact from dial on demand from my 
									# intel machine.

I get error messages in /var/log/maillog complaining about can't find the full name for my host, using the short name.....
Messages are queued and sent to mindspring or anywhere else.

I suspect I am on thin ice on how I set up the domain name. Netscape mail only works if I have mindspring.com in the resolv.conf file as the domain. I guess the sendmail.cf file is pumping different information regarding domain to the mail server so that mindspring will mail to mindspring.com.

I am ignorant but life is good.

Thanks for the help from previous posts.  They were a great help.

John


sendmail.cf modified byDSmail.mindspring.com and Djjohnsplace.com as the domain.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Luis [mailto:lgonzal at mindspring.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 3:42 PM
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] sendmail -mindspring-ISP ignorance


> Mindspring likes to change its server names and IP addresses when they
> upgrade hardware because they're too stupid to have the new system have
> the same name and IP address as the old system and simply rename the old
> system (now destined for some other service).  They also cannot be
> bothered to send email to their customers when this happens.

this is inaccurate.

smtp.mindspring.com is actually just an alias for mail.mindspring.com
smtp points to the same servers plus additional machines.



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