complete rookie sendmail question

[Ken Hawkins]

Apologies for the quick post. I found the domain file issue and i had  
changed the DOMAIN param in freebsd.mc from generic to prosoundweb.com.  
switching it back to generic obviously took care of that problem  
however after opening up the SMART_HOST:

define(`SMART_HOST', `bhost1.broadjam.net')

I am still timing out which leads me to believe it is a true issue of  
timing between the servers and NOT improper configuration on the box.  
If i understand everything now by uncommenting the SMART_HOST define  
and giving it our true mail server this should relay all mail generated  
and coming from and coming into the server to the actual mail server  
yes?

I also now only have sendmail_enabl="YES" in rc.conf

am i way off base here?
ken;
On Feb 28, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Ken Hawkins wrote:

>
> On Feb 27, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ken Hawkins wrote:
>>
>>> alright I found an old blurb about handling a scenario similar to  
>>> mine:
>>>
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/ 
>>> 014468.html
>>>
>>> it essentially says:
>>>
>>>
>>> If you want to get FreeBSD to forward your email to the MS-Exchange
>>> server, you have to:
>>>
>>>    1. make sure sendmail is running. (ie remove sendmail_* lines from
>>>       /etc/rc.conf)
>>
>> Put sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
>>
>>>    2. # cd /etc/mail
>>>    3. # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
>>
>> That's doing things the hard way and might miss things the Makefile  
>> will do for you.  Just:
>>
>> # cd /etc/mail
>> # make
>>
>>>    4. edit `hostname`.mc and uncomment the following line:
>>>
>>>            define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
>>>
>>>    5. replace `your.isp.mail.server' with your Exchange server.
>>
>> Or any mail server you are allowed to smarthost through.
>>
>>>    6. # make
>>>    7. # make install
>>>    8. # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart
>>
>> Should be:
>>
>> 6. make all install restart
>>
>> which combines steps 7 and 8.  6 was already done above.
>>
>>> can anyone point me toward what I require to create a domain file  
>>> for our <box name> in the /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/ area?
>>
>> Let /etc/mail/Makefile help you by using make as shown above.
>
> did those steps:
>
> 1 cd /etc/mail
>
> edited freebsd.mc and changed:
>
> 2 make
>
> this generated:
>
> cp freebsd.mc web1.prosoundweb.com.mc
> /usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/    
> /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 web1.prosoundweb.com.mc >  
> web1.prosoundweb.com.cf
> m4: web1.prosoundweb.com.mc at line 49:  
> include(/usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/prosoundweb.com.m4): No such  
> file or directory
> *** Error code 1
>
> this is still looking for a prosoundweb.com.m4 file in the domain  
> area. is there a step I am missing somewhere?
>
> I copied generic.m4 to prosoundweb.com.m4 and went through 'make all  
> install restart'
> and I am still timing out talking to the host:
>
> Operation timed out with bhost1.broadjam.net.
>
> so obviously I am not done here....
>
> ken;
>
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