Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:26:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuring sendmail to use a relay Message-ID: <20021014152620.GA50000@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <000a01c2738e$ef4b6080$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> References: <3DAAD526.9D492556@liwing.de> <000a01c2738e$ef4b6080$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com>
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:35:21AM -0400, Kliment Andreev wrote:
> > how can I configure the system sendmail to use our smtp server
> > instead of sending mails directly to the responsible MX for
> > the destination address?
>
> In the file sendmail.cf, put the following line
>
> DSnameoftherelayserver
>
> You SHOULD NOT put space between DS and the name_of_the_relay_server!
Beware of editing the sendmail.cf file directly. Serious masochists
only territory there. The equivalent and recommended way of
customizing the sendmail configuration on FreeBSD is via the
`hostname`.mc file in /etc/mail:
cd /etc/mail
make [ This will generate a default `hostname`.mc file if needed ]
vi `hostname`.mc
Delete the 'dnl ' from the beginning of the line that says:
dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
and substitute the FQDN of your mail relay for the
your.isp.mail.server part. Now simply run make to generate and
install the new configuration and prod sendmail into using it:
make install restart
A guide to wrangling sendmail.mc files may be found in
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
Cheers,
Matthew
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