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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



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