From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 05:45:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27293 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 05:45:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27284 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 05:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06968; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:44:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from proot) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199810221244.HAA06968@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Third Party SMTP relay In-Reply-To: <19981022144216.S1219@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Oct 22, 98 02:42:16 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:44:15 -0500 (CDT) Cc: dallas.tx@airmail.net, lynch@rush.net, jim@phrantic.phear.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Greg Lehey said: > On Wednesday, 21 October 1998 at 21:52:22 -0500, David L. Vondrasek wrote: > > At 10:48 PM 10/21/98 -0400, Pat Lynch wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> > >> he probably did not change his sendmail.cf file. > > > > Correct, he didn't. he was told it didn't relay by DEFAULT. Some asked for > > his .cf file and here it is. complete. > > (snip) > > # Configuration version number > > DZ8.8.8 > > This isn't 8.9.1. > > By default, sendmail includes a configuration file. If you replace it > with another, you'll end up with a non-default system. Also, by default, makesendmail install does not replace the current sendmail.cf file. That said, if you are going to be muking with sendmail, you need to get your hands a little dirty in the m4 files. It's not near as bad as it used to be. (10 years ago, I was trying to frob Sun's default sendmail.cf, yuck). www.sendmail.org has great pages on how to do this. Just READ! Paul. -- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message