From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 06:46:50 2005 Return-Path: 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 64EEE16A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:46:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from stdin.stderror.at (stdin.stderror.at [83.65.196.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AAA43D31 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:46:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pinhead@steve.stderror.at) Received: from steve.stderror.at (steve.stderror.at [83.65.196.91]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by stdin.stderror.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE344A177; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from steve.stderror.at (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by steve.stderror.at (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3T6lxAS028710; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:47:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pinhead@steve.stderror.at) Received: (from pinhead@localhost) by steve.stderror.at (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j3T6lxJU028709; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:47:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pinhead) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:47:59 +0200 From: Toni Schmidbauer To: Olaf Stein Message-ID: <20050429064759.GI2181@stderror.at> Mail-Followup-To: Olaf Stein , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200504282014.j3SKEend029312@defang10.net.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504282014.j3SKEend029312@defang10.net.ohio-state.edu> Phone: +43 664 3502198 X-WWW-Home-Page: http://stderror.at X-PGP-Fingerprint: 53F2 28AE 8070 83E0 AFEC 0ABC BBF9 A34A 3ED1 3287 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail relay host problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: toni@stderror.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:46:50 -0000 On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:14:40PM -0400, Olaf Stein wrote: > What I remember and what I did on this installation is the following: > > - add alias for existing user in /etc/mail/aliases > - run newaliases > - add relay-domains file in /etc/mail with the domains to deliver mail to > - restart sendmail > > I am under the impression that with my old installation that was enough but > I am not sure > Fact is that it does not send any emails > Am I missing something I still have to do or do you know locations of howtos > for setting up sendmail for my purposes what does mailq say? what happens when sending an e-mail with mail -v? relay_domains contains domain- or hostnames sendmail will relay for. where sendmail should forward (send to) your mails, depends on MX or A DNS records, entries in the mailertable, or the DS (smart host) statement in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. hth toni -- Wer es einmal so weit gebracht hat, dass er nicht | toni at stderror dot at mehr irrt, der hat auch zu arbeiten aufgehoert | Toni Schmidbauer -- Max Planck |