By streverett
I’m trying to set up a sendmail instance on my droplet that will be able to forward any emails sent from my web app/website/terminal/etc over to my Google Apps account. I’ve followed this tutorial (with slight modifications) so my Gmail user “sendmail@mydomain.com” will relay any emails sent from the web app to the gmail account.
Any time I try and test sendmail in this way, however, I get the error:
mail: cannot send message: Process exited with a non-zero status
I’m pretty sure this is because my /etc/hosts file is set up incorrectly; currently, it looks like this:
127.0.0.1 mydomain.com localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 localhost.mydomain.com mydomain.com
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
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That looks too messy and can cause you problems as gmail has a limit of email send this way. try using mandrillapp.com is pretty easy and free for 12k mails a month.
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