Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:07:07 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Karl Hammerschmidt <stuffynose@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail timeout Message-ID: <20030327180707.GA6051@fourtytwo.brucec.backnet> In-Reply-To: <000501c2f489$b26eadd0$0200a8c0@dellfromhell> References: <000501c2f489$b26eadd0$0200a8c0@dellfromhell>
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:49AM -0600, Karl Hammerschmidt wrote: > Thanks for the tip! > > Telnet does fail, and I found out that my ISP (earthlink) is known to block > 25. The information I found said to put 'mail.earthlink.net' in SMART_HOST > in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. Is that /etc/mail/freebsd.mc on a freebsd system? > > I tried putting it there, but it seems to get ignored. The docs on > sendmail.org say things like LOCAL_RELAY override SMART_HOST, but I didn't > find anything like that in freebsd.mc. > > Anybody know what I did wrong? You need to put it in freebsd.mc or a customised version of that, then run 'make freebsd.cf' or whatever you called the custom copy, but with a .cf instead of .mc. Then, copy the .cf file to sendmail.cf and restart sendmail by running 'killall -HUP sendmail'. Bruce Cran
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