From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 13:41:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF9237B71D for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scaryg@sputnik.org) Received: from phantom (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f34Kbun79641 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:37:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from scaryg@sputnik.org) Message-ID: <015b01c0bd48$0572abb0$0f01a8c0@phantom> From: "ScaryG" To: Subject: Specifying an external SMTP server in Sendmail Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:44:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My problem is, I want sendmail to use smtp1.sympatico.ca as the outgoing mail server. I can use sendmail ok but the IP's we are given (which change daily) are listed in mail-abuse.org's DUL so many sites (including the ISP I work for) won't accept any mail from that box. I thought I would just change the entry in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DS smtp1.sympatico.ca and kill -HUP sendmail's pid# But then I get this error: Apr 4 15:21:18 scaryg sendmail[392]: f34JLI000392: SYSERR(freymann): MX list for smtp1.sympatico.ca points back to scaryg.shacknet.nu uname -a FreeBSD scaryg.shacknet.nu 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Sun Apr 1 22:12:16 EDT 2001 freymann@freebsd.sputnik.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCARY i386 Sendmail version: 220 scaryg.shacknet.nu ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.3/8.11.3; I'm not running named... just have in /etc/resolv.conf domain scaryg.shacknet.nu nameserver 204.101.251.1 (which is sympatico's DNS) For now, I just use Netscape Email where I can set the SMTP servername and everything is fine there... but from the command prompt (or other email clients) I'm kinda lost. -Gerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message