sendmail to a smarthost?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Allan Bowhill wrote:

>On  0, Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>:Hello. In my LAN the DNS server is my ADSL modem ... small device that 
>:cannot do MX type of address lookup. I wish to configure a fax server 
>:(FreeBSD 5.2 + Hylafax) in the LAN to send emails to a group of people upon 
>:receiving fax. The problem is hylafax fax server can only use sendmail to 
>:send fax notification, but sendmail can send out emails only when it knows 
>:receipiant's MX ip.
>:
>:The only way I can think of is to let sendmail send mails by using my ISP's 
>:smtp server (need login). But I read sendmail(8), I didn't find how to 
>:configure sendmail to do this, nor did I find such information on the 
>:handbook. I'm not familiar with sendmail config.
>:
>:I hope I'm clear:) What should I do now? Do you have something to suggest 
>:me to read? Thank you.
>:
>
>Try reading Simon Barner's tutorial on setting up FreeBSD for workstations.
>
>http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html
>  
>
Oh this article is really helpful, I'm reading it .. it is really long.
But my situation is pertty typical; I believe many people are like me to 
rely on ISP's authenticated smtp server. Must things be so complicated 
for those people like me, as  said in that article?
Isn't there a replacement of sendmail to do simple mail transfer by just 
asking a smtp server to do everything?

Thank you.