sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

[Chuck Swiger]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-01-10 19:38, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
[ ... ]
>>Go to /etc/mail.  Edit freebsd.cf (look for SMART_HOST), point it at your
>>ISP's mail server.  Do "make stop; make install; make start".
> 
> FWIW, the file edited should be `freebsd.mc', not `freebsd.cf' otherwise
> a subsequent "make install" will overwrite the edited `freebsd.cf' file
> with a fresh copy generated from `freebsd.mc'.

Err, yes, that's right.  (I knew which file I meant.  :-)

Note that you can even copy freebsd.mc to hostname.mc, and the system will 
find it for you so you don't have to change the default template file.  The 
Makefile explains this better than I did.

-- 
-Chuck