Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:32:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> Cc: bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail base configuration Message-ID: <8763qnxat8.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4890BC1B.8040700@simplenet.com> (Tim Traver's message of "Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:11 -0700") References: <4890BC1B.8040700@simplenet.com>
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:11 -0700, Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this isn't exactly the right place for a sendmail question, but > it has to do with the system configuration, and I'm trying to find > some help to create a relatively simple solution (I think)... > > ok, here is what I want to do, which I have done in the past, but now > it doesn't seem to be working... > > I simply want any submitted email using sendmail to be relayed to > another mta for distribution. I want this to happen both from > submitted mail from the command line, and from any queues, if the mail > is submitted to the running daemon. Set the `SMART_HOST' option in your `custom-sendmail.mc' file. That should do it. > I use FreeBSD 7.0, and all of the configuration is in /etc/mail/. From > what I understand, if I simply set the DS variable to a hostname, it > is supposed to use that as the smart relay host, but it is not > working. For some reason, it is ignoring that hostname, and attempting > to contact the MX record host for the domain name of the machine, > which is really weird. You are not manually editing sendmail.cf, right?
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