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need help setting up sendmail for multiple domains

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Shodan99

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I have several websites hosted on a dedicated server, I need to set up multiple email addresses for each website. I've added the domains to the file "local_host_names" and set up the connections in the "virtusertable". I've restarted sendmail but I still get an error when sending a test email that says-

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

am I missing something?
 
yes, you are more than likely missing a lot of things. first, change your log level so we can debug this issue better.

are you going through a relay? are you storing user info in a database? are you running sendmail as root or a separate user? which linux distro are you using?
 
I'm using fedora 12 and running sendmail as root. I don't know how to set it up, I'm a beginner with linux and have never set up an email server before. Any help is appreciated.
 
Shodan99 said:
I'm using fedora 12 and running sendmail as root. I don't know how to set it up, I'm a beginner with linux and have never set up an email server before. Any help is appreciated.
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you may have an easier time trying out postfix, which is a popular MTA with a lot more recent community support. is this a home server? meaning, will you be relaying outgoing mail through your ISP or what?
 
its a dedicated web server from godaddy. Its not being used as a relay server so much as the base server for several websites that will need individual sets of emails addressed to their respective domains.
 
godaddy should be pretty much "install and go." i would setup postfix and telnet into your hostname at port 25 to see if you have established a connection. then you can work on securing mail transfers using TLS and then setup dovecot or something similiar. then you can setup a database and start populating it with user information and then set that up with dovecot.
 
+1 for postfix. on simple systems that just need to send their local mail to some mailserver i use exim.

never use sendmail
 
Yeah sendmail is for crusty old UNIX guys and masochists.
 
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