From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 7:13:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A0A37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brightstar.ath.cx (mplsdslgw28poolA121.mpls.uswest.net [63.231.168.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D03C43E31 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glb@bomgardner.net) Received: from morningstar (morningstar.ath.cx [192.168.123.1]) by brightstar.ath.cx (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g6FEDbP09844 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:13:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glb@bomgardner.net) From: "Gene Bomgardner" To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:13:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: email Reply-To: Gene@bomgardner.net Message-ID: <3D32922A.27228.82188CB@localhost> In-reply-to: <20020715140538.GC301@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 15 Jul 2002 at 15:05, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:45:31AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: > > Hello- > > I want to be able to send email outside my network using pine or just > > regular mail. Right now I can only send email to users on my local network. > > What do I need to do to sendmail to get it to send mail outside my network? > > thanks, > > brian > > Look for the DS directive in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > DS > > Insert the name of your ISP's SMTP relay host in here, restart > sendmail and I think that's it... > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye Hmmm... I just installed sendmail and it emailed outside the network right out of the box. No changes needed. I seem to have no need to use the ISP's SMTP host at all. Sendmail seems to just contact the receiving host's SMTP mailer directly. There must be something else going on. Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message