sendmail base configuration

[Tim Traver]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:11 -0700, Tim Traver <tt-list at simplenet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know this isn't exactly the right place for a sendmail question, but
>> it has to do with the system configuration, and I'm trying to find
>> some help to create a relatively simple solution (I think)...
>>
>> ok, here is what I want to do, which I have done in the past, but now
>> it doesn't seem to be working...
>>
>> I simply want any submitted email using sendmail to be relayed to
>> another mta for distribution. I want this to happen both from
>> submitted mail from the command line, and from any queues, if the mail
>> is submitted to the running daemon.
>>     
>
> Set the `SMART_HOST' option in your `custom-sendmail.mc' file.  That
> should do it.
>
>   
I tried that, and regenerated the cf files using "make all", and it 
still wants to use the MX record of the based domain to send out mail 
and I can't figure out why.

The maillog entries show that it initially tries to use root at localhost 
as a relay, which doesn't make sense...

I'm baffled by its behavior at this point, and don't know how to solve it...

help...

Tim.

>> I use FreeBSD 7.0, and all of the configuration is in /etc/mail/. From
>> what I understand, if I simply set the DS variable to a hostname, it
>> is supposed to use that as the smart relay host, but it is not
>> working. For some reason, it is ignoring that hostname, and attempting
>> to contact the MX record host for the domain name of the machine,
>> which is really weird.
>>     
>
> You are not manually editing sendmail.cf, right?
>
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