Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:00:16 +0000 (GMT) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Feroz=20F.=20Basir?=" <dbase77@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail Message-ID: <20031223160016.34726.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031223154618.GC36128@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Hi,
My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use
DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I
thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our
mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to
resolve mail.domain.com to ip.
Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9 just to
resolve odmain.com if I send to john@domain.com?
Thank you.
--- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 03:27:00PM +0000,
Feroz F.
> Basir wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anybody ever setup "smart host" using sendmail
> before?
> > This is on fbsd4.9. I edit sendmail.cf file and
> edit
> > line:
> >
> > DSmail.domain.com
>
> It's better to edit the `hostname`.mc file and then
> process that into
> a sendmail.cf otherwise you run the risk of
> overwriting your
> customized .cf file when you do a
> {build,install}world cycle.
>
> Just change the line:
>
> dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
>
> into
>
> define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.domain.com')
>
> and run 'make install restart-mta'
>
> > Restart sendmail and nothing happen. I keep
> getting
> > (host map: lookup (domain.com): deferred) error.
> Do I
> > need to do anything? I try on other unix system
> and I
> > got it to work. Very strange. I want my main smtp
> > server send the email from fbsd box.
>
> You've changed the sendmail config just fine. What
> you need to do now
> is investigate why your machine isn't finding
> 'mail.domain.com' in the
> DNS.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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