From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 19:26:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA1016A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:26:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from defang9.net.ohio-state.edu (defang9.net.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0C743D54 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:26:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stein.175@osu.edu) Received: from RADIMRES14 (radimres14.med.ohio-state.edu [140.254.8.83]) j3SJQi2q010726 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:26:44 -0400 Message-Id: <200504281926.j3SJQi2q010726@defang9.net.ohio-state.edu> From: "Olaf Stein" To: Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:26:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcVMKDPP9xBulazFQXSg+94IlzCK/w== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-CanItPRO-Stream: outbound X-Spam-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: sendmail relay host problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:26:46 -0000 hi everybody I am running FBSD 5.3 with sendmail 8.12 on a custom installed system (just base and man) The only thing this machine is supposed to do is send notification emails on certain events on an ftp server the ftp notifications work, as other mail servers I have tried deliver them my old machine doing this (FBSD 4.9) crashed and I unfortunately do not remember exactly how I configured it What I remember and what I did on this installation is the following: - add alias for existing user in /etc/mail/aliases - run newaliases - add relay-domains file in /etc/mail with the domains to deliver mail to - restart sendmail I am under the impression that with my old installation that was enough but I am not sure Fact is that it does not send any emails Am I missing something I still have to do or do you know locations of howtos for setting up sendmail for my purposes please cc me as I am not on the list thanks /Olaf -------------------------------------------- Olaf Stein Research Scholar OSU Medical Center Department of Radiology Division of Imaging Research phone: 614-293-9983 cell: 614-589-9229