Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:39:28 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Doug Young <young@richardson.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SENDMAIL Configuration Message-ID: <20000205133928.B9105@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <021801bf6f8d$909096d0$827e03cb@ORACLE>; from young@richardson.apana.org.au on Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 02:00:36PM %2B1000 References: <01cc01bf55f3$a11cdb20$3a7e03cb@dog.gate.net.au> <021801bf6f8d$909096d0$827e03cb@ORACLE>
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 02:00:36PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > I'm trying to configure "sendmail 8.9.3" in FreeBSD3.2, and I'm a bit > confused about just how to do a few things. The FreeBSD box is a > gateway > for a LAN ... permanent dialup modem connection to the net > > Firstly, "sendmail.cw" & "relay-domains" > > I understand that sendmail.cw is where you are supposed to list domain > names > that you want sendmail to accept mail for, so since I want > bryden.apana.org.au > to accept mail for all my LAN machines I made up a "sendmail.gw" file > as follows > > +++++++++++++++++++++ > bryden.apana.org.au > oracle.apana.org.au > dougy.apana.org.au > roadrunner.apana.org.au > jdy.apana.org.au > matey.apana.org.au > +++++++++++++++++++++ If you are collectiong mail for the entire apana.org.au domain, perhaps a mailertable is better for you. It would contain, apana.org local: .apana.org local: And you would cover all hosts in the domain. > Furthermore I've been told that "relay-domains contains domain names > of all > machines you want to allow relaying for. You would probably list all > your > other machines here." > > I read that as meaning I should just list all local machines, so I > made > up a "relay-domains" file by copying the "sendmail.cw" file to > "relay-domains" Does that work properly? > Secondly, I tried running the following > > makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable < /etc/mail/virtusertable > makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access > > Got "No such file or directory", so I created a new empty file > "/etc/mail/virtusertable" ... and ran that first thing again ..... Huh? Created an empty /etc/mail/virtusertable? That file needs to hold your virtual user table to be processed. You seem to be trying to creat a virtuserable from nothing. > this time I got a different response > "/etc/mail/virtusertable.db: line 1: syntax error (leading space)" > > Looks like I've gotta put something in that "virtusertable" file but > what ?? Try, % cd /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf % more README Also, these are sendmail questions that are not at all FreeBSD specific. You might want to try sendmail resources, http://www.sendmail.org comp.mail.sendmail [snip] -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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