Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:04:57 -0400 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail ignores SmartHost directive Message-ID: <20070320135313.6349.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <bd4110c30703201032o3f0c8fcib038ba3ef5fd9727@mail.gmail.com> References: <bd4110c30703201032o3f0c8fcib038ba3ef5fd9727@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday March 20, 2007 at 01:32:57 (PM) Vincent Bolinard wrote: > I'm trying to set up Sendmail to "send-only". I just want Sendmail > sends local mails (i.e.: daily security run output) to my SMTP server. > > I use : > > # cd /etc/mail > # make > > to generate a `hostname`.mc file. I edit it, and add : > define(`SMART_HOST', `[192.168.1.6]') > > (I tried without brackets, and with names) > > then : > > # make install > # make restart-mta > > I use > > # date | sendmail -v postmaster > > but I can see in the output that Sendmail sends the mail to the local > server. It seems that my SmartHost is ignored. > I can ping the smarthost (whith IP and name), and telnet > mail.domain.com 25 works fine. > > It's suggested in the Handbook to use ssmtp in this case (send-only), > but I red that it was unable to send HTML mails. Is that true ? If > not, I'll use it. > > So, can somebody tell me where I am wrong ? and what can I do to use a > smarthost ? I dont use sendmail myself, but the smart host feature refers to the SMTP of your service provider. Something like: "smtp.my-isp.com" sans quotes. I am not sure if you can use the numeric address or not. In any case, it would not be the one you have shown anyway. After configuring it, type: "make all install restart" if it is running or replace 'restart' with 'start' if it is not. Make sure you have to have sendmail properly activated in the /etc/rc.conf file. Check out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html -- Gerard
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