fbsd4.9 sendmail

[Feroz F. Basir]

Hi,

My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use
DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I
thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our
mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to
resolve mail.domain.com to ip.

Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9 just to
resolve odmain.com if I send to john at domain.com?

Thank you.


 --- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 03:27:00PM +0000,
Feroz F.
> Basir wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Anybody ever setup "smart host" using sendmail
> before?
> > This is on fbsd4.9. I edit sendmail.cf file and
> edit
> > line:
> > 
> > DSmail.domain.com
> 
> It's better to edit the `hostname`.mc file and then
> process that into
> a sendmail.cf otherwise you run the risk of
> overwriting your
> customized .cf file when you do a
> {build,install}world cycle.
> 
> Just change the line:
> 
>     dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
> 
> into
> 
>    define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.domain.com') 
> 
> and run 'make install restart-mta'
>  
> > Restart sendmail and nothing happen. I keep
> getting
> > (host map: lookup (domain.com): deferred) error.
> Do I
> > need to do anything? I try on other unix system
> and I
> > got it to work. Very strange. I want my main smtp
> > server send the email from fbsd box. 
> 
> You've changed the sendmail config just fine.  What
> you need to do now
> is investigate why your machine isn't finding
> 'mail.domain.com' in the
> DNS.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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