Re: sendmail : sending mail to mailserver w/o DNS-MX

From: Sebastian Jaenicke (sjaenick_at_techfak.uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:26:08 +0200

* Marcel de Groot <marceldegroot@home.nl> wrote:
[..]
> I want to send mail via sendmail , to a specific smtp-host in my network.
>
> With hpux, I simply change some lines in the sendmail.cf file , the Dj$w
> for the appropiate domain and the DS parameter for the specific ip-adres.
> The last thing i change is the dot in the /etc/hosts file for that
> sending host (localhost)
>
> When i do this in RedHat 7.x it gives me a dead-letter in stead of a
> nice mail-transfer, or with 8.x it will be send to localhost..:-(

Edit sendmail.mc and re-create the .cf file from it - directly modifying
the sendmail.cf is not recommended.

You're probably looking for SMART_HOST, see cf/README.

> What am i missing here????

Log entries?

- Sebastian

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