Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:11:39 +0000 From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Authoritative guide to configuring Sendmail to use a relay for outgoing mail on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <rtkl8b$dsu$2@ciao.gmane.io> In-Reply-To: <20210112175322.b35d6ea7.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <rtkafk$mp8$1@ciao.gmane.io> <D73191D9-2E89-4C81-8636-DBD3CEAF5A6F@boosten.org> <20210112175322.b35d6ea7.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 12/01/2021 16:53, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:58:35 +0100, Peter Boosten via freebsd-questions wrote: >> Basically all my jails use another jail as mail hub: >> >> Change /etc/mail/freebsd.submit.mc to reflect the correct mail hub >> >> FEATURE(`msp', `[your.smart.host]', `MSA’)dnl >> >> Also configure the confDOMAIN_NAME and confHELO_NAME to reflect your >> host/domain. >> >> Then run ‘make install’. >> >> In my /etc/rc.conf there’s this: >> >> sendmail_enable="NO" >> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" >> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" >> sendmail_submit_enable=“NO" >> >> Then run ‘make restart’ in your /etc/mail directory. >> >> This basically makes the machine not accept email from outside (only >> from the machine itself) and forwards everything to your smart host. > > In the past, I have been using my ISP's mail relay until they > cut support for that. In order to have all outgoing messages > to be sent through the ISP's relay (instead of having my own > sendmail doing that, especially from behind a dynamic IP), I > had the followint setting in /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc: > > define(`SMART_HOST', `mx.example.com') > > where mx.example.com is the mail relay I wanted to use, and > it worked for all systems from within the network of the ISP. > With a "make install", the setting was activated, and it worked > for many happy years. :-) How did you create /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc? By copying and editing or by running make in /etc/mail? -- Ottavio Caruso
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