Authoritative guide to configuring Sendmail to use a relay for outgoing mail on FreeBSD?

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 1/12/21 6:09 PM, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On 12/01/2021 14:27, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> On 1/12/21 3:07 PM, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote:
>>
>>> According to [2], it seems I have to edit sendmail.cf;
>>
>> Where does that page say this?
>> I don't see any reference to sendmail.cf there.
> 
> My bad. I meant this:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/sendmail.html
> 
> Third para: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

Ok, then.

Read that again :)
It doesn't say you have to mess directly with sendmail.cf.

What it says is:
> The master Sendmail configuration file can be built from m4(1) macros that define the features and behavior of Sendmail.

which is what "cd /etc/mail ; make" does.

  bye
	av.