From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 15:10:28 2005 Return-Path: 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 0962916A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:10:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5AA43D3F for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:10:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rosewoodblues@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin02-en2 [10.13.10.147]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id j1SFANJg000130; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:10:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (c-24-98-140-190.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.140.190]) (authenticated bits=0)j1SFAKM7002430; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:10:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20050227161826.L41045@wonkity.com> References: <20050225161127.GB55686@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050227202639.GB9833@gothmog.gr> <6ecb12f5b29fa031d9210f1995a19546@mac.com> <20050227161826.L41045@wonkity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <36c31cd38eef659488feadba0eb44f08@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ken Hawkins Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:10:14 -0500 To: Warren Block X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: complete rookie sendmail question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:10:28 -0000 On Feb 27, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ken Hawkins wrote: > >> alright I found an old blurb about handling a scenario similar to >> mine: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/ >> 014468.html >> >> it essentially says: >> >> >> If you want to get FreeBSD to forward your email to the MS-Exchange >> server, you have to: >> >> 1. make sure sendmail is running. (ie remove sendmail_* lines from >> /etc/rc.conf) > > Put sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. > >> 2. # cd /etc/mail >> 3. # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc > > That's doing things the hard way and might miss things the Makefile > will do for you. Just: > > # cd /etc/mail > # make > >> 4. edit `hostname`.mc and uncomment the following line: >> >> define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') >> >> 5. replace `your.isp.mail.server' with your Exchange server. > > Or any mail server you are allowed to smarthost through. > >> 6. # make >> 7. # make install >> 8. # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart > > Should be: > > 6. make all install restart > > which combines steps 7 and 8. 6 was already done above. > >> can anyone point me toward what I require to create a domain file for >> our in the /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/ area? > > Let /etc/mail/Makefile help you by using make as shown above. did those steps: 1 cd /etc/mail edited freebsd.mc and changed: 2 make this generated: cp freebsd.mc web1.prosoundweb.com.mc /usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 web1.prosoundweb.com.mc > web1.prosoundweb.com.cf m4: web1.prosoundweb.com.mc at line 49: include(/usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/prosoundweb.com.m4): No such file or directory *** Error code 1 this is still looking for a prosoundweb.com.m4 file in the domain area. is there a step I am missing somewhere? I copied generic.m4 to prosoundweb.com.m4 and went through 'make all install restart' and I am still timing out talking to the host: Operation timed out with bhost1.broadjam.net. so obviously I am not done here.... ken;