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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:50:56 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        dps <dan@i-tds.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail Newbie Question
Message-ID:  <40352FC0.3000701@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <000901c3f72b$302632d0$0a02a8c0@m73524>
References:  <000901c3f72b$302632d0$0a02a8c0@m73524>

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dps wrote:
[ ... ]
> 1) How to I monitor the sendmail log

Sendmail uses syslog to log messages to /var/log/maillog.

> 2) Do I need to do anything special with respect to DNS to get sendmail
> to be able to send outside of localhost

In your circumstances, what you want to do is configure your sendmail to relay 
all external mail to your ISP's mail server, which can be done by setting 
SMART_HOST in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc appropriately.

-- 
-Chuck



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