[wplug] Sendmail configuration

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Deepan wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am using sendmail via php mail function to send
> emails. However few servers reject my mails with
> the error 'Sender address rejected: Domain not
> found', since mails from my server are sent as
> email at localhost.localdomain. How do I change this
> to a valid domain name ? We only own a public IP.
> we dont really have a domain name, is it possible
> to use IP ? 

It may be possible to use an IP, but there is a very good chance that your 
email will get marked as spam, as only spammers use IP addresses for their 
emails.  If you only have a single IP and it is from Comcast, Verizon, or 
other residential broadband provider, there's a good chance that even if 
you get a domain and set up a proper mail server that it will be rejected 
as spam due to the fact that almost every address from Comcast and Verizon 
is blackholed.

Your best bet is to register a domain, set it up so the mail is done by 
google apps for domains, and send the mail through there.  You can have a 
small program queue up messages and then send them through the IMAP 
interface.  The mail will get slowed down a little, but it should get 
through.  That's just my $0.02 for the situation.

--Patrick