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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:55:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        MatzeLoCal@gmx.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail
Message-ID:  <20030731095330.S70519-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <9439.1059634464@www44.gmx.net>

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 MatzeLoCal@gmx.de wrote:

> > Put the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> > sendmail_enable="NO"
> > sendmail_submit_enable="YES"
> >
> > FreeBSD will then run a sendmail daemon listening on the loopback
> > interface for mail submission only. This sendmail process will not be
> > visible from external hosts and will not receive any mail.
>
> Thx,
> but this does not work. I've already tried it. Or can I tell sendmail to use
> an SMTP-server?

You can try to create the file /etc/mail/mailertable to specify which stmp
server to use for your domain, put a line in there that looks like:

example.org  192.168.1.25

Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de)  ____            ___  _______
GWDG                           / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \
Am Fassberg                   / _// __/ -_) -_) _  |\ \/ // /
37077 Goettingen             /_/ /_/  \__/\__/____/___/____/
Germany




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