Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:16:17 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Conf Message-ID: <20010707171616.A753@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3B466FF8.BDB1B413@allmaui.com>; from craig@allmaui.com on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 07:12:08PM -0700 References: <3B466FF8.BDB1B413@allmaui.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com> Subject: Sendmail Conf Date: Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 07:12:08PM -0700 > How do I set my FreeBSD 4.3R machine to relay all mail through > another mail server? By careful use of class 'w' (that lists the local host names) in sendmail.cf and setup of MX records in your DNS server. You'll understand what I mean by reading below. > so on the local machine, machine.subdomain.domain.com mail sent to the > local user would go to user@domain.com Then, you should remove domain.com from your 'locally handled host and domain names' list. Unless you have changed the location of `confCW_FILE' in your master-config, the file that lists these hosts and domains should be either /etc/mail/sendmail.cw (for older versions of sendmail) or /etc/mail/local-host-names (in newer versions of sendmail). First of all, make sure that this file does not list machine.subdomain.domain.com or domain.com. This will inhibit Sendmail from trying to deliver mail for recipients in these host and domain locally, and try doing an MX lookup first. Then, make sure that your DNS server has MX records for domain.com that point to the machine that you want this mail really delivered to. Then you should be ready to go :-) > I put mail.1.my.domain.com in my sendmail.cf but mail to just user still > ends up in the local mail box. You put what? ... and where? This is not enough to find out what could be wrong. Please try to be very detailed about the changes you do, next time. Ciao, -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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