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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2003 20:02:17 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: send-pr issues probably related to sendmail misconfiguration
Message-ID:  <20030514080217.GB66843@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F68iZvwhgXtHfG000111ac@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY8-F68iZvwhgXtHfG000111ac@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:39:39PM -0700, Evan Dower wrote:
> sendmail config confounds me. how do I do that?
> Thanks,
> Evan
> 
> 
> >From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>

[...]
> >The FreeBSD mail server will bounce anything that doesn't resolve.  If UW 
> >gave you a smart host (a.k.a., SMTP server) on their network to use, 
> >configure sendmail to use it.

    # cd /etc/mail
    # vi freebsd.mc

    Uncomment the line that reads:
        define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
    Replace your.isp.mail.server with your Uni's SMTP Server.

    # make
    # make install
    # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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