Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:24:11 +0530 From: Shantanu <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> To: Joe Kraft <hishadow@netcabo.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail from 4.10-STABLE firewall Message-ID: <20040827195411.GB916@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <cggd4d$3l1$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <cggd4d$3l1$1@sea.gmane.org>
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+++ Joe Kraft [freebsd] [24-08-04 22:49 +0100]: | | | Chuck Swiger wrote: | >Joe Kraft wrote: | > | >>I'm using a 4.10-STABLE based firewall, which is happily chugging | >>along. It's sending it's daily messages to a local account via | >>sendmail, which I check by logging in using an ssh connection. | > | >[ ... ] | > | >>3) Is there a way to convince sendmail to send to something like | >>foo@10.0.0.55? I could just put that in my existing aliases file and | >>not have to install anything more. | > | > | >The key part of your request is answered by using IP addrs in square | >brackets, which will not require DNS MX or A lookups. So, add something | >like: | > | >foo@[10.0.0.55] | > | >...to the ~/.forward file of root or wherever the mail is going to now. | >Yes, you could put this in the aliases, or even use a mailertable to | >redirect all local mail to the other system. | > | | I tried doing it that way and it wouldn't go out either. I wound up | adding the 10.0.0.55 server to /etc/hosts and letting sendmail do it's | lookup there. I never convinced sendmail to send to to the user foo on | the 10.0.0.55 server, is that supposed to be possible? | | Joe. try: > echo "this is a test mail" | mail "user@[10.0.0.55]" (works in tcsh) Regards, Shantanu
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