[NBLUG/talk] Configuring sendmail to forward email via sonic.net

E Frank Ball III frankb at frankb.us
Mon Aug 26 14:04:20 PDT 2013


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:11:51PM -0700, Ron Wickersham wrote:
 > 
 > hi Todd,
 > 
 > for other mail relay configurations i use the SmartHost directive in
 > the sendmail configuration file, normally at /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
 > 
 > looking down in that file you'll see this in the local info section
 > (at line 93 in my config file were there is no Smart Host):
 > 
 > # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
 > DS
 > 
 > you add the host name after DS with no whitespace, so if sonic's
 > mail server were mail.sonic.net your entry would be:
 > 
 > # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
 > DSmail.sonic.net
 > 
 > but this would use port 25 and you indicate that they don't relay
 > for customers with that port.   so this may not be what sonic's
 > set up needs from you.



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   E Frank Ball          frankb at frankb.us


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