SMTP Not Working

[John Thompson]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:10:08 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Uhm, I'm not sure but what I can tell you is that the sendmail in OS/2 is
>not *THE* sendmail.  IE, it isn't the sendmail that most variants of unix come
>with.  It is an IBM hack (I am being kind) that has the same name and might
>provide a bare functionality of the real sendmail.

Although OS/2 sendmail is an IBM hack, it does follow the Unix sendmail
fairly closely; close enough, in fact, that any arcane knowlege of Unix
sendmail.cf will stand you in good stead when setting up OS/2 sendmail. 

But the sendmail that ships with OS/2 is pretty old and does not include
the anti-relaying spam protection and other security fixes the the newer
Unix versions have. This probably isn't a big concern for dial-up users,
but there is an independent port of sendmail v8.9.3:

ftp://protein.bio.msu.su/pub/os2/tcpip/mail+news/Sendmail8.9.3.Rar
ftp://protein.bio.msu.su/pub/os2/tcpip/mail+news/Sendmail8.9.3-Config.RAR



John (john.thompson@ibm.net)