From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 17:47:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77A837B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:47:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao04.cox.net (lakemtao04.cox.net [68.1.17.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC5943E77 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:47:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ataraxia@cox.net) Received: from cox.net ([68.98.181.29]) by lakemtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20021107014720.EVZU1315.lakemtao04.cox.net@cox.net>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:47:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3DC9C628.7080008@cox.net> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:47:20 -0500 From: Ray Kohler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021102 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail without (real) hostname? References: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3DC9A3B4.1030303@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Ray Kohler writes: > > > >Is there any way to get outgoing mail working on a system with a dynamic > >IP and no DNS entries? Mail is sent as it is but of course no one will > >relay it. > > > >All I really want is the ability to use send-pr so I can send patches > >without having them mangled by line-wrapping. > > > If I understand the question, change the default /etc/mail/freebsd.mc: > > < dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') > --- > > >define(`SMART_HOST', `yourISPsMailHost.yourISP.net') > > > And rebuild the two sendmail .cf files in that dir following the README > and maybe the sendmail manpage. You'll probably have to use "sendmail" > vars from /etc/default/rc.conf and (re)start some sendmail daemons. > It's nasty and I didn't take notes. > > And I doubt if send-pr will work without your deciphering the script > to see if it can be fooled with environmental vars or you could modify > it. I've always just edited a copy of a template PR and then mailed it. You do understand the question but this doesn't help me. My ISP is refusing to relay for me just as well as any third-party servers. We're not expected/intended to send mail that way so they're not set up to do so. - @ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message