Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:41:24 -0700 From: Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail base configuration Message-ID: <4890FC24.1030806@simplenet.com> In-Reply-To: <8763qnxat8.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4890BC1B.8040700@simplenet.com> <8763qnxat8.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 tried that, and regenerated the cf files using "make all", and it still wants to use the MX record of the based domain to send out mail and I can't figure out why. The maillog entries show that it initially tries to use root@localhost as a relay, which doesn't make sense... I'm baffled by its behavior at this point, and don't know how to solve it... help... Tim. >> 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? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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