Sendmail Help request

[Jeffrey McCright]

Hmmm.. OK, that makes sense. Where do I go to tell sendmail to relay through 
SBCGlobal's SMTP? Is that an entry in the sendmail.cf file?

Thanks for your help,

Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
jmccright at hotmail.com
jeff.mccright at gmail.com



>From: "Billy Crook" <billycrook at gmail.com>
>To: "Jeffrey McCright" <jmccright at hotmail.com>
>CC: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Re: Sendmail Help request
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:52:31 -0600

>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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