Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:39:34 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail replacement? Message-ID: <20020518163934.A29504@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020517213918.W22762-100000@dumpster.io.com>; from eighner@io.com on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:49:04PM -0500 References: <20020517213918.W22762-100000@dumpster.io.com>
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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:49:04PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote:
> Is there some way to eliminate sendmail and replace it with something
> else?
>
> For example, freebsd mailing lists bounce my mail because I connect
> by dialup and get a dynamic IP. If it is possible to get sendmail
> to deal with this properly I can't dig it out of the wonderful
> sendmail documentation.
The only reason why this would happen is because you're not using sendmail
to relay your email to your ISP's MTA, you're asking sendmail to send
the email directly to the mailing lists. Very likely, there's no
reverse-lookup for that IP, hence the list bounces it. You need to add
the following to your site's .mc file:
define(`SMART_HOST', `mailer:isp.host.name')
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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