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Date:      Sat, 22 Apr 1995 01:38:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: dumb Q. on sendmail
Message-ID:  <199504212338.BAA14419@blaise.ibp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <9504212320.AA13507@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Apr 21, 95 06:20:53 pm

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> Actually, what you *might* want to do is to pass off all your mail to your
> ISP, and have their machines deal with it.  All you really need to do is
> look at Sendmail's examples for "smarthost" delivery, where the local
> Sendmail mostly disregards DNS/etc.  This is the fix that will probably
> serve you best.

I think it is the best solution...

define(`SMART_HOST', esmtp:[mailhost.provider.net])dnl

is the parameter to use in your .mc file. Replace esmtp by smtp if the
sendmail on the other side is not a 8.6.x. The [] make sendmail ignore
MX records for the smart host (you don't need them).
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
  FreeBSD keltia 2.0.950416-SNAP #17: Sun Apr 16 17:12:07 MET DST 1995



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