Sendmail

[Phoenician]

My sendmail was set up and runs from webmin.
I'm not overly technical, but I might be able to help.

Have you tried the Linux Documentation Project?
www.tldp.org

Also try the sendmail webpage.  www.sendmail.org

I'd be willing to let you take a look at my setup if you want.

- Michienne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Seth Dimbert
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:22 AM
> To: KCLUG List
> Subject: Sendmail
>
>
> Some History, then a question.
>
> HISTORY:
>
> Some of you may remember what first brought me to the LUG. We had
> need at my
> office for an internal website, and I read online that this crazy thing
> called Linux was the best way to do it. So I took an old 486 and installed
> RedHat 7.2 on it. Out of the box, it was great, the webserver worked,
> everyone on my local network accessed the site via the machine's
> IP address,
> and joy spread across the land.
>
> Then I decided to install the MS FrontPage Server Extensions... and
> everything broke. I wiped the drive, reinstalled the OS, got some
> specialized help with FP and now, once again, everything works.
> The box has
> been running for months with no problems, the pages load in a snap,
> FrontPage works (I know, I know... but it makes easy pages!) and I look
> good.
>
> But, now, things are getting more complicated. Big Boss Man would
> like some
> more complicated features on the internal website, and I need to
> be able to
> get email off of the box.
>
> You see, right now, sendmail isn't working. Oh... it's running. It just
> doesn't work. I turned it on (via WebMin because I try to stay as far away
> from the command line as possible), but it's obviously not configured
> properly; there are currently almost 400 emails queued up,
> waiting to be let
> off the box.
>
> So, I need some help. Here comes the question.
>
> THE QUESTION
>
> I know that I can find HOWTO's and tutorials on sendmail online. But, I've
> heard sendmail is pretty complex, and I don't think I need 90% of what it
> can do. All I want to do at this point is be able to send the results of
> webforms to myself. So... can someone here give me a non-technical
> description of:
>
>  - What sendmail does
>  - What it needs from me
>  - What I need to set
>  - What I can ignore
>
> And, if possible, can I do it all via WebMin?
>
> Thanks a gazillion.
>
> -SD
>
>
>