From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 21:39:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D1C37B404 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 21:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4I4dbZk029551; Sat, 18 May 2002 16:39:37 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4I4dYC9029550; Sat, 18 May 2002 16:39:34 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:39:34 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Lars Eighner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail replacement? Message-ID: <20020518163934.A29504@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020517213918.W22762-100000@dumpster.io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020517213918.W22762-100000@dumpster.io.com>; from eighner@io.com on Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:49:04PM -0500 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 On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:49:04PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > Is there some way to eliminate sendmail and replace it with something > else? > > For example, freebsd mailing lists bounce my mail because I connect > by dialup and get a dynamic IP. If it is possible to get sendmail > to deal with this properly I can't dig it out of the wonderful > sendmail documentation. The only reason why this would happen is because you're not using sendmail to relay your email to your ISP's MTA, you're asking sendmail to send the email directly to the mailing lists. Very likely, there's no reverse-lookup for that IP, hence the list bounces it. You need to add the following to your site's .mc file: define(`SMART_HOST', `mailer:isp.host.name') -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message