From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 23:42:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E78106566C for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tt-list@simplenet.com) Received: from mx2.securemailscan.com (ob2.scaledsystems.com [209.132.1.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403C68FC17 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tt-list@simplenet.com) X-Warning: RFC compliance checks disabled due to whitelist X-Warning: Maximum message size check skipped due to whitelist X-Warning: System filters skipped due to whitelist X-Warning: Domain filters skipped due to whitelist X-Warning: User filters skipped due to whitelist X-Warning: Anti-Spam check skipped due to whitelist X-Whitelist: 2147483549 X-Envelope-From: tt-list@simplenet.com X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: From mta1.scaledsystems.com (209.132.1.201) by mx2.securemailscan.com (MAILFOUNDRY) id JSZctl6REd2nZQAw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:42:17 -0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 75184 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2008 23:42:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (tt@simplenet.com@75.80.130.243) by mail.ssl.simplenet.com with ESMTPA; 30 Jul 2008 23:42:17 -0000 Message-ID: <4890FC24.1030806@simplenet.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:41:24 -0700 From: Tim Traver User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <4890BC1B.8040700@simplenet.com> <8763qnxat8.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <8763qnxat8.fsf@kobe.laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: bsd Subject: Re: sendmail base configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:42:18 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:11 -0700, Tim Traver wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I know this isn't exactly the right place for a sendmail question, but >> it has to do with the system configuration, and I'm trying to find >> some help to create a relatively simple solution (I think)... >> >> ok, here is what I want to do, which I have done in the past, but now >> it doesn't seem to be working... >> >> I simply want any submitted email using sendmail to be relayed to >> another mta for distribution. I want this to happen both from >> submitted mail from the command line, and from any queues, if the mail >> is submitted to the running daemon. >> > > Set the `SMART_HOST' option in your `custom-sendmail.mc' file. That > should do it. > > I tried that, and regenerated the cf files using "make all", and it still wants to use the MX record of the based domain to send out mail and I can't figure out why. The maillog entries show that it initially tries to use root@localhost as a relay, which doesn't make sense... I'm baffled by its behavior at this point, and don't know how to solve it... help... Tim. >> I use FreeBSD 7.0, and all of the configuration is in /etc/mail/. From >> what I understand, if I simply set the DS variable to a hostname, it >> is supposed to use that as the smart relay host, but it is not >> working. For some reason, it is ignoring that hostname, and attempting >> to contact the MX record host for the domain name of the machine, >> which is really weird. >> > > You are not manually editing sendmail.cf, right? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >