Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:06:51 +0100 From: Shamim Shahriar <shamim.shahriar@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail: using sendmail as submitting MTA Message-ID: <CAOyJeZSxfdayN0oQTB0RaZ5YzkwRjBC_ktqh1R6jNwtSz9KOzg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOyJeZRqD8p_poG8%2BP=d8MDX_LR=rp9Y-qN-GPs0Ha5fhc5b9w@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160627120315.36072692@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <CAOyJeZT1Eiw1h3PQUaUoAkCAv57ddrsq6Ro70pi1xuh%2BeeDqYg@mail.gmail.com> <CAOyJeZRqD8p_poG8%2BP=d8MDX_LR=rp9Y-qN-GPs0Ha5fhc5b9w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27 Jun 2016 11:03 am, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > We use a monitoring server (icinga2) based on FreeBSD embedded in a closed > network (no external access) with a M$ mailexchange server. > > I try to configure local sendmail in a way so that all email going to the > localhost are delivered to the local machine itself, but email for an external > email account is passed to the mail hub server. This mail hub server is > accessible by any host in the closed network without authentication (this is > given by a higher instance as a fact I can not change). > > I tried to figure out with the recent handbook but the explanation of how to > configure sendmail is really poor. Since I'm not that familiar with sendmail > itself anymore, I appreciate some startups here. > > As I understand the docs, the files > > hostname.localdomain.mc > > and > > hostname.localdomain.submit.mc > > are the only ones I need to touch, along with > > mailertable > > for the resolution of the target domain and the mail-hub server to contact. > > The target email domain would be foobar.bla, so I use an entry in mailertable > like > > foobar.bla esmtp:[IP4] (no MX record usage) > .foobar.bla esmtp:[IP4] > > There is no suitable access to a DNS for MX resolution (all Microsoft crap), so > I have an /etc/host entry for the mailhub server - or mail relaying server. But > nothing works so far. Checking the mail queue with mailq gives me always on all > outbound emails > > host map: lookup (foobar.bka): deferred > > What is wrong? > > Please CC me, I' do not subscribe this specific list. > > Thank you in advance, > > Oliver > > P.S. I ggoled for that specific error and got lots of how-tos but it seems that > none of them worked so far. I guess I miss something. I already did a > > make all install > > in /etc/mail after every change. > Hello Two possible things to try if you have not already First, in /etc/mail, please run make all install restart The restart bit forces sendmail to reread the config and also mailertable. If that doesn't work, in your /etc/hosts add an entry for foobar.bla Then restart sendmail. Please keep us posted on how it goes. Regards
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