Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:47:36 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way. Message-ID: <201104201847.p3KIlapX097441@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one not to edit it directly so I edited the /etc/mail/my.name.domain.mc file as stated in documentation to cause this system to send all out-bound mail through a "smart host." The .mc file part that adds the smart host looks like: dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') define(`SMART_HOST', `mailserver.okstate.edu') After that, I did a make in that directory and things seemed to go well. After restarting sendmail, it still wanted to resolve normally and not use the gateway. The only way we could get it to behave as desired was to do what one is not supposed to do and edit sendmail.cf and add the mailserver.okstate.edu name right against the line beginning with DS After another restart, everything worked. What am I failing to do as this is not the proper way to reconfigure sendmail? The DS line in the master file looks like DSmailserver.okstate.edu Many thanks and the handbook is very helpful but I haven't seemed to run across anything that directly addresses this situation.
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