[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The specific server possibility sounds like the right one. > My /etc/mail/sendmail.mc contains the line > (shown broken; actually contains "com')dnl" ) > > define(`SMART_HOST',`orngca-mls06.dc.rr.com') > dnl [scs 03c17][was 03803,02b05]
"dig MX san.rr.com" says san.rr.com mail is handled by 10 orngca-01.mgw.rr.com. san.rr.com mail is handled by 10 orngca-02.mgw.rr.com. san.rr.com mail is handled by 10 clmboh-01.mgw.rr.com. san.rr.com mail is handled by 10 clmboh-02.mgw.rr.com. san.rr.com mail is handled by 10 hrndva-01.mgw.rr.com. san.rr.com mail is handled by 10 hrndva-02.mgw.rr.com. For postfix this would be aconfiguration of: relayhost = orngca-01.mgw.rr.com And to configure mail so it works properly within the domain, you configure "myhostname" to be the same as that handed out by roadrunner. > I'm not sure anymore but I think this line configures outbound mail. > > 1. How do I determine the generic server names? I might need advice > to navigate the RR help web pages using lynx. The last time > I tried navigating them I had difficulty. Since I'm on Cox I don't even know if they'll let me access their help pages. > 2. I really would rather use qmail or postfix than sendmail, but > I don't want to lose my configuration, which includes forcing my > From_ and From: lines to be my RR email address. Without special > effort they used to wind up being addresses that only are meaningful > on > my own workstation. From_ was difficult, but years ago it was > common, IIRC, to reject mail where that address was anything > unexpected. Postfix usually works out of the box. But since you are using a speak > You can see what I had to do at > www.speakeasy.org/~straits/kp_sma01509a.txt . > (BTW, sendmail on my workstation is an Elf binary and so doesn't > seem to be an alias for qmail or postfix.) I always found sendmail to be much more difficult to configure for this type of address than postfix. In postfix you simply have a file called sender_canonical with this type of line $localuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which will automatically cause all mail sent from localuser to be automatically translated to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have a problem the other way, there's another file you can create recipient_cananonical that maps recipient addresses like this. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] These files are hashed after every change by using the postmap command. Postfix really is much easier to run than sendmail. It's also likely to be more secure, since like qmail it's composed of many small programs that perform different funtions. Only those that bind to ports or otherwise are required to have root permissions, do. Everything else has a default user permission, usually postfix. No M4 files for configuring. The only reason anything other than plain text files are used is to speed up the reading by the running program Postfix is usually installed with enough documentation to get you up and running in an hour or so. Complex configurations (much more complex than yours) take a little longer. The home page for postfix is http://www.postfix.org/ Some good pages to start reading are: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#workstation_server http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#null_client http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#intranet http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#dialup Depending upon which distribution you are using you might have different choices of how you save your sendmail configuration, then write your postfix configuration. On some distributions you can have both installed at the same time, most will remove sendmail when you install postfix. Your configuration is so standard that only one or two lines in the default postfix configuration file need to be changed to get you up and running. The sender_canonical and recipient_canonical files are also straightforward and require one line each in /etc/postfix/main.cf to make them work. Hope this helps. -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. -- Mark Twain -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
