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Date:      21 Apr 2003 16:30:36 -0500
From:      Jeremy Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org>
To:        Mark P <parsissn@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail smart relay host
Message-ID:  <1050960636.224.13.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030421210228.91039.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030421210228.91039.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:02, Mark P wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need help getting sendmail working. We have a
> central mail gateway that I need to send all outbound
> mail through. That server is mailgw.co.com
> (172.16.1.3).
> 
> On the mail client (FBSD 4.8), I have
> enable_sendmail="NO" and sendmail_submit_enable="YES"
> in /etc/rc.conf. If I set DS (null) in
> /etc/mail/submit.cf, mail is sent directly to the
> remote mail host fine. If I set DS172.16.1.3 in
> /etc/mail/submit.cf, I can't send mail at all.
> Checking the /var/log/maillog I see:

I'd guess sendmail is trying to look up an A record
for 172.16.1.3.yourdomain.com.  Try giving it the
hostname for 172.16.1.3 (or make one up and put it
in /etc/hosts).

j.

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Jeremy L. Gaddis   <jeremy@gaddis.org>   <http://www.gaddis.org>;



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