Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:03:27 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: Vincent Bolinard <vinzstyle@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail ignores SmartHost directive Message-ID: <20070320190103.H84510@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <bd4110c30703201032o3f0c8fcib038ba3ef5fd9727@mail.gmail.com> References: <bd4110c30703201032o3f0c8fcib038ba3ef5fd9727@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Vincent Bolinard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up Sendmail to "send-only". I just want Sendmail > sends local mails (i.e.: daily security run output) to my SMTP server. > > I use : > > # cd /etc/mail > # make > > to generate a `hostname`.mc file. I edit it, and add : > define(`SMART_HOST', `[192.168.1.6]') > > (I tried without brackets, and with names) > > then : > > # make install > # make restart-mta > > I use > > # date | sendmail -v postmaster > > but I can see in the output that Sendmail sends the mail to the local > server. It seems that my SmartHost is ignored. > I can ping the smarthost (whith IP and name), and telnet > mail.domain.com 25 works fine. > > It's suggested in the Handbook to use ssmtp in this case (send-only), > but I red that it was unable to send HTML mails. Is that true ? If > not, I'll use it. > > So, can somebody tell me where I am wrong ? and what can I do to use a > smarthost ? In a similar environment, I edit `hostname`.submit.mc and define a MAIL_HUB there: define(`MAIL_HUB', `smtp.my.net') Should work after make install and restart. Good luck! Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de
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