From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 0: 9:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B0637BB7A for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 00:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA19568; Mon, 22 May 2000 00:08:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3928DCDB.4178CDF5@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:08:11 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Nathan Vidican , Robert Small , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guidance with Sendmail or Qmail References: <3922D319.D1D59CF8@wmptl.com> <20000518023334.E16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Well it's a matter of opinion, but I found sendmail a royal pain to > configure if you want anything different from the default > configuration Trying to convince someone to change mailers is always a fruitless task, but I couldn't let some of this slip. > -- eg if you want to send everything through your ISP's > mail relay upstream, rather than directly to the recipient hosts. Actually this is quite easy to do just by editing the sendmail.cf file. Just add your ISP's mailhost to the 'DS' line, where DS stands for "Define Smarthost." Ex. DSyourisp.mail.host > It's claimed that the m4 files make it easier, but I just couldn't > seem to generate a sendmail.cf from them that did what I wanted it to > do. IMO the m4 syntax only replaces one difficult to understand configuration syntax for another one, but it does have some value. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message