[lug] Sending e-Mail under Linux

[Warren Sanders]

I'm surprised it worked too since you were sending to hotmail.  AOL and Yahoo 
will not accept mail coming from a non-fully qualified domain name. I thought 
hotmail was in this same boat...

John Dollison wrote:
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> Instead, it really did send a mail to my hotmail account, with the From: and
> ReplyTo: addresses set to <john at localhost.localdomain>.  I was really
> suprised that this had worked, but since I have a broadband connection
> through AT&T, I figured maybe it had configured itself for AT&T's SMTP
> settings.  But when I checked, it was using sendmail, which I thought was a
> local daemon of some sort.  So I don't understand how my computer actually
> figured out which computers to talk to, to get my mail to it's destination.
> Is there some kind of tutorial that I haven't read yet, or can someone give
> me some clues?

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Warren Sanders
http://MontanaLinux.Org

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