Sendmail Help request

[Billy Crook]

I haven't used sendmail itself, but I can tell you you shouldn't send
directly to the hotmail smtp server.  They probably will block you as spam
because they don't know where you're coming from.  You should relay through
your ISP's outgoing smtp server.  With roadrunner that's
smtp-server.kc.rr.com.  It allows any clients within the RR network to
connect and relay out through it.  If it still bounces, you should make it
appear to come from a RR address like MyAnsweringMachine at kc.rr.com.  The
problem, I'm guessing, has less to do with sendmail, and more to do with
bounce policy at hotmail and other email carriers.

On 3/10/07, Jeffrey McCright <jmccright at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> All,
>
> I have the following system configuration:
> Generic White box computer
> Intel Celeron 466mhz processor
> 256 MB RAM
> 20 GB PATA Hard Drive
> ZyXEK U-1496e External Data/Fax/Voice Modem
> Realtek 10/100 nic
> Red Hat Linux 9
> Sendmail v 8.12
>
> Before I go further, I have NO desire to update or upgrade any hardware,
> software, or OS in this system!
>
> All devices are working properly. I am using vocp to auto answer my voice
> modem, take messages, encode those messages into OGG formatted attachments
> and attempting to use sendmail to send my messages to my hotmail or gmail
> accounts. Everything works great until I try to send my messages to an
> external mailserver. In other words, my messages can be accessed from my
> local mail account whe I send them to say root at localhost.localdomain, but
> when I try to mail to jmccright at hotmail.com, my messages bounce. I know
> absolutely nothing about sendmail and I am using a default configuration
> of
> Sendmail. What am I missing? Is there some change I need to make to my
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file to allow me to send to external mailservers?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,
>
> Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
> jmccright at hotmail.com
> jeff.mccright at gmail.com
>
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