Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:01:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> To: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Specifying an external SMTP server in Sendmail Message-ID: <20010404215944.C1176-100000@scaryg.shacknet.nu> In-Reply-To: <200104050152.LAA16869@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Tony Landells wrote: > Well, what it looks like is happening is that Sendmail is going to DNS > to find out how to send mail to smtp1.sympatico.ca, and one of the MX > records (with the best priority) points to you. I SysAdmin at a local ISP and during my daily dealins with SPAM and Open Mail Relays, I even tried using an open mail relay in the DS line, but it came up with the same error as when I tried smtp1.sympatico.ca Got me puzzled on that one fer sure. > What you want to do is tell Sendmail not to put that much effort into > it, and just punt the stuff directly there by changing the smart host > in sendmail.cf to > DSsmtp:[smtp1.sympatico.ca] Awh, thank-you Mate! This indeed fixed that problem ;-) Sure makes life much easier. -Gerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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