Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:47:59 +0200 From: Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at> To: Olaf Stein <stein.175@osu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail relay host problem Message-ID: <20050429064759.GI2181@stderror.at> In-Reply-To: <200504282014.j3SKEend029312@defang10.net.ohio-state.edu> References: <200504282014.j3SKEend029312@defang10.net.ohio-state.edu>
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:14:40PM -0400, Olaf Stein wrote: > What I remember and what I did on this installation is the following: > > - add alias for existing user in /etc/mail/aliases > - run newaliases > - add relay-domains file in /etc/mail with the domains to deliver mail to > - restart sendmail > > I am under the impression that with my old installation that was enough but > I am not sure > Fact is that it does not send any emails > Am I missing something I still have to do or do you know locations of howtos > for setting up sendmail for my purposes what does mailq say? what happens when sending an e-mail with mail -v? relay_domains contains domain- or hostnames sendmail will relay for. where sendmail should forward (send to) your mails, depends on MX or A DNS records, entries in the mailertable, or the DS (smart host) statement in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. hth toni -- Wer es einmal so weit gebracht hat, dass er nicht | toni at stderror dot at mehr irrt, der hat auch zu arbeiten aufgehoert | Toni Schmidbauer -- Max Planck |
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