From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 20: 8:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bunning.skiltech.com (bunning.skiltech.com [216.235.79.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2D837B41B for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from minter@localhost) by bunning.skiltech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAG48L102904; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:08:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from minter) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:08:21 -0500 (EST) From: "H. Wade Minter" X-X-Sender: minter@bunning.skiltech.com To: Steve Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I make "mail" (sendmail?) use remote SMTP server? In-Reply-To: <20011115224014.P6830-100000@prayforwind.com> Message-ID: <20011115230731.U2537-100000@bunning.skiltech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I'd recommend editing /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and changing the line that reads: # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DS to read # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DSyoursmtphost.isp.com That should fix it. On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Steve Brown wrote: > Hello there, > > My ISP is now blocking access to any SMTP servers other than theirs, and > blocking mail sent from "localhost". So I can no longer use mail or mutt > to send a message to anyone except my own users. > > Can I configure something ([mail & mutt] or sendmail) to use their SMTP > server? I'd like to be able to do something like this: > > cat | mail someone@somewhere.com > > and have it go out. > > Thanks in advance, > > Steve > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Do your part in the fight against injustice. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org/ Fight the DMCA! http://www.anti-dmca.org/ STOP the SSSCA! http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_sssca_alert.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message