Ubuntu 20.04 sendmail

Jerry Geis jerry.geis at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 15:30:20 UTC 2021


On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 8:28 AM David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2021-07-02 at 07:51 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to get sendmail working like CentOS 7 - equivalent.
> > I need mail coming into the box so procmail works and also sending
> > email.
> > Any clues on how to do that ?
>
> From my server installation notes:-
>
> sudo aptitude install -r postfix
> Select "internet with smarthost" option
> then enter the relay server address to be used with SASL
> Read the MailRelaySetup and SMTPAuthWithSASL to complete the
> installation.
>
> Then edit a couple of main.cf lines:-
>
> mydestination = thefletchers.net, $myhostname, ServerIV,
> localhost.localdomain, localhost
>
> mynetworks = 192.168.2.0/24 localhost
>
> Should get it working locally and receiving email from the Internet, if
> you've got a domain and you've set your MX record to get to your
> server, and set up your aliases file. If you want it to relay out via
> someone else's SMTP server you'll likely have to do the SASL stuff too.
>
> I tried years ago to get sendmail to work for me and gave up on it.
>
> Dave
>
>
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HI Dave,

How do I get incoming email to work.  I am all setup for procmail ?

Jerry
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