SendMail tips

Some nice tips for setting up sendmail. The more important of it is to setup the domain name that is the MTA correct, so that the receiving server may not consider the sent emails as spam. By default emails are sent out from the domain name of localhost.localdomain which will be considered spam, best is to change the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file to match the server details.

A very nice summary of setups to setup sendmail correctly is listed here

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