Re: Sendmail

On Saturday 04 June 2005 2:02 am, mmorris6m wrote:
> I'm new to mail on a *nix system...never needed it up to this point.
>
> I'm using Mandrake 10, and I was wondering if sendmail needs to be
> configured to relay through an smtp server (my ISP only allows
> outbound emails to go through their smtp servers), and if so, how
> would I go about doing this??
	depends on your ISP. if your ISP does not require any authentication, 
merely to use their outgoing servers, it becomes trivial if you use 
Postfix.

	add the following line to your /etc/postfix/main.cf
relayhost=[smtp.cox.net]

	be sure to replace [smtp.cox.net] with your actual outgoing server 
name. also, the square brackets are important. this tells postfix to 
resolve the name normally, not look for an MX record.

	if you have to authenticate, it may be harder. I remember that with MDK 
9.1 I had to build my own Postfix to have SASL. I never tried it with 
10.0, tho I know it works unmodified with MDK 10.1.

	If you don't know how to use sendmail, PLEASE DON'T. You'll save 
yourself a lot of torture this way. Postfix is easier and is supposed 
to be more secure than the original sendmail. And the user-level 
interface is compatible with the original sendmail.
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