Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

[Greg Larkin]

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On 4/20/11 2:47 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one
> not to edit it directly so I edited the
> /etc/mail/my.name.domain.mc file as stated in documentation to
> cause this system to send all out-bound mail through a "smart host."
> 
> 	The .mc file part that adds the smart host looks like:
> 
> dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately
> dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
> define(`SMART_HOST', `mailserver.okstate.edu')
> 
> 	After that, I did a make in that directory and things
> seemed to go well. After restarting sendmail, it still wanted to
> resolve normally and not use the gateway.
> 
> 	The only way we could get it to behave as desired was to
> do what one is not supposed to do and edit sendmail.cf and add
> the mailserver.okstate.edu name right against the line beginning
> with DS
> 
> 	After another restart, everything worked. What am I
> failing to do as this is not the proper way to reconfigure
> sendmail?
> 
> The DS line in the master file looks like
> 
> DSmailserver.okstate.edu
> 
> 	Many thanks and the handbook is very helpful but I
> haven't seemed to run across anything that directly addresses
> this situation.

Hi Martin,

Try these commands, and the sendmail.cf will be updated from the .mc file:

<edit .mc file>
make install
make restart

Hope that helps,
Greg
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