Sendmail hell

[suityou01]

I am trying to configure a linux server for a brief demo of an open source tool.
It uses sendmail

Try as I might to configure sendmail and am getting precisely nowhere

can some kind soul please give me some pointers. What I am unearthing on google is bloody confusing. What's a smarthost FFS?

details are for arguments sake

mail.somemailserver.com
username fred
password bloggs

so I have configured a smarthost, and a client-info file and rebuilt the hash database

when I try the following from the command line

sendmail - v myemail@yahoo.co.uk < mail.test

I get the following error

WARNING: local host name (MyServer) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I?
No local mailer defined

after a brief hang

please help

 

[stek]

Try this in /etc/hosts.....

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx hostname FQDN

Where of course xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP, hostname is the hostname and FQDN is the hostname with domain appended, apologies if that's obvious...

Long time since I dicked around with sendmail and it was always a twatt then, and I'm a Solaris dood, dunno if u edit /etc/hosts directly on Linux or if Linux has some user-friendly way of avoiding use of vi.....

 

[NickFitz]

It appears to be to do with your server name not being specified in the sendmail config file.