On SLES 8 I am trying to get the command line mail program (/bin/mail) to send
mail to a different machine running sendmail.  From what I'm reading this
type of configuration is called a null client, it simply routes the email to
another server instead of having a local copy of sendmail running.

With all that I've tried so far, the mail program insists on trying to contact
the local server:

bbpri2:/etc/sysconfig # mail -v -s Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just testing...
.
EOT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to localhost.corporate.domain.com. via
relay...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred: Connection refused by
localhost.corporate.domain.com.

I have the nullclient parameter in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail set to the name of
the machine running sendmail.  I did run SuSEconfig to update the
configuration files.  It almost looks like I need a way to configure the mail
program to talk the other server.  I can not see any configuration parameters
for mail.rc that reference a remote server.

Any tips would be appreciated...
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Rich Smrcina
Sr. Systems Engineer
Sytek Services, A Division of DSG
Milwaukee, WI
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