Hi,

I'm trying to set up a RH8.0 box to send outgoing mail and NOT receive
incoming mail (preferrably, not run sendmail as a daemon).

I'm not a sendmail expert and I'm having a hard time doing something
that in previous versions of RH I believe was simpler.

I have googled quite a bit and tried several things, but with no luck.
Each time I send email from the command line I end up with a:

Sep 22 17:23:38 xxxxxx sendmail[4094]: h8MKNbTd004094:
to=foo@whatever.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30047, relay=localhost.localdomain.
[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by
localhost.localdomain.

I have the following rpm installed:

[root@xxxxxx mail]# rpm -qa | grep sendmail
sendmail-8.12.5-7

I believe that there exists a sendmail-cf rpm, which is not installed
in this box. Don't know if I need it...

Hosts table include both name and real address as well as localhost
and loopback interface. They resolve fine.

Could anybody possibly list the steps that I should follow to
configure a fresh RH8.0 installation to allow outgoing email to be
sent ? Or point me to some documentation on the web ?

Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide!!!

BR,

James