sendmail config problem

[Michael Roark]

I just set up a spare machine intending on it being a small list server and mx 
host for another domain. The default Debian install is smail, but I removed it 
and installed Sendmail. I thought I had everything installed properly, but 
everything stops at /var/spool/mqueue . Sendmail seems to not be able to 
resolve host names. The error states Name Server: none blah, blah. I can 
resolve hostnames from the command line so that isn't necessarily the issue. Is 
there an internal for name service lookup in Sendmail or is there something 
missing from sendmail.cf?

Anyone seen this before?

Thanks,

Michael
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Sendmail config problem

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

I'm trying to set up sendmail on a server behind a firewall.  It can only
resolve DNS within the firewall.  I want it to deliver mail to addresses
within the firewall (all one domain) and pass on mail for the rest of the
world to a gateway which does have external DNS.

The problem is that while local delivery is fine, mail to the Internet
always bounces with the error DSN: Host not found.  This makes sense, my
server has no external DNS, so I'm looking for a way to disable Sendmails'
use of DNS.  The docs suggest removing dns from /etc/nsswitch.conf but
this isn't an option as this would disable DNS for all services on that
system.  There is a FEATURE(nodns) but that according to the docs is a
no-op.

Then I read about mailertables.  This looks like it could do the trick
except it doesn't :-(  Here's what mine looks like.

localhost   local:localhost
.mycompany.com  procmail:localhost
.   relay:mail.mycompany.com

What went wrong?  Is this not the right way to achieve my objective?

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Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail config problem

[Richard A Nelson]

Let sendmail's local delivery work as before, and add this line to
your sendmail.mc:
  define(`SMART_HOST', `mailhub')

where mailhub is the name of your firewall machine.  sendmail will
then forward any non-local mail to mailhub
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Rick Nelson
C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL

Re: Sendmail config problem

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

Thanks, that worked!

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Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Richard A Nelson wrote:

 
 Let sendmail's local delivery work as before, and add this line to
 your sendmail.mc:
   define(`SMART_HOST', `mailhub')
 
 where mailhub is the name of your firewall machine.  sendmail will
 then forward any non-local mail to mailhub
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 Rick Nelson
 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL