sendmail error

[JCatFedora15]

Hi all,

I tried to use mutt to sendmail using my company e-mailid. I have configured mutt to receive mails. But, send mail is not working. I googled and found that a MTA has to be configured. I configured sendmail. But, I get the following error on using sendmail:
[root@ localhost jaya]# sendmail -v geetkumar@company.co.in
company.co.in: Name server timeout
geetkumar@company.co.in... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery
Hi
.
geetkumar@company.co.in... queued


I have configured sendmail to send mail using the following:

vi /etc/hosts
10.20.20.220 smtp.company.co.in

vi /etc/mail/genericstable
jaya jaya@company.co.in

vi /etc/sendmail.mc
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.company.co.in'')
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(`genericstable')dnl
GENERICS_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl

make -C /etc/mail

vi /etc/mail/access
connect:10.x.x.x(SMTP server IP) RELAY

cd /etc/mail
/usr/sbin/makemap hash access < access
service sendmail restart

Please point out the configuration error or let me know if there is any other way to configure mutt to be able to send e-mail from the specified email address

Regards
Jaya

[stevea]

If outbound email is all you need - I suggest you install and configure 'ssmtp' as it's far simpler than sendmail, and only runs on demand (no daemon).

After install you need to use the 'alternatives' or better yet 'galternatives' to set the 'mta' and link it in as the sendmail implementation.


/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf has some decent config examples and you can google more.

[steveking]

I swear by exim myself I actually posted a tutorial on setting it up in fedora, never had any problems with it.

[JCatFedora15]

Hi n thanks for the reply,

Can you provide me the link to your write up on ssmtp configuration?

[stevea]

Nothing wrong with exim, postfix or even the ancient, venerable and boneheadedly complex sendmail. But the OP doesn't suggest that he wants or needs an industrial strength mailserver. If the task is just to move mail/mailx/sendmail originated email off a laptop or home system then all those are vast overkill and excessive.
ssmtp was custom made for this scenario,

ssmtp is a send-only sendmail emulator for machines which normally
pick their mail up from a centralized mailhub (via pop, imap, nfs
mounts or other means). It provides the functionality required for
humans and programs to send mail via the standard or /usr/bin/mail
user agents.

I run a mail server (dovecot, postfix) on a virtual machine, but to get those cron messages into the mailer I install ssmpt on each of the other system. The configuration is one line defining 'mailhub=mail.localdomain'. You need just a little more for authentication on commercial smtp servers.

[JCatFedora15]

Hi,

I edited /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

mailhub=smtp.company.co.in

I get the following error:
ssmtp:530 authentication needed
Error sending message, child exited 1 ().

---------- Post added at 04:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:12 PM ----------

Hi n thanks,

I commented the following:
#UseSTARTTLS=YES

# Use SSL/TLS certificate to authenticate against smtp host.
#UseTLSCert=YES

# Use this RSA certificate.
#TLSCert=/etc/pki/tls/private/ssmtp.pem

It's working fine now.