Hi Suresh, I feels you are a bit confused. What all things you have explained me , I've already come accross. Really thanks for taking effort in replying. Sorry for replying to your personal mail-id previously, b'coz I'm a newbie to this mailing list. I'll surely take care of that and won't repeat it. As you have metioned I'm attaching the entries of maillog file when I send mails locally and outside using the mail() function in PHP. It is clear from the maillog file that for the localmails it is not going thru SMTP. As far as sendmail -bs switch is concerned I've already experimented and it is working when I'm using sendmail at command prompt. # /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -t < data.txt ########## Content of data.txt ############### helo localhost mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] data Subject : Test Mail This is a test mail using -bs switch .................... ................... . quit ############# End of data.txt ############# Some errors are being displayed , but the mails get delivered The above procedure I've used in PHP (opening a file writing all the data to a file , using 'exec' finally I'm sending); This is really a tidious job for aeach and every mail. I'm looking for an alternate solution so that I can use PHP's mail() function as it is and all mails(no matter whether it's an outgoing or local) should be routed through port smtp/esmtp. This is my final aim. Hope you have understood the problem, If not let me know ............. Expecting your early reply. regards Vinu Chandran
################### MAILLOG entry when I send mail to a local user of the same machine ############################## Dec 8 15:05:21 myhost sendmail[25095]: eB89ZK325095: from=nobody, size=250, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=nobody@localhost Dec 8 15:05:21 myhost sendmail[25097]: eB89ZK325095: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30250, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ################### MAILLOG entry when I send an outgoing mail ############################## Dec 8 15:08:24 myhost sendmail[25146]: eB89cO425146: from=nobody, size=242, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=nobody@localhost Dec 8 15:08:36 myhost sendmail[25148]: eB89cO425146: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:12, xdelay=00:00:12, mailer=esmtp, pri=30242, relay=mxpool01.netaddress.usa.net. [204.68.24.19], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Mail accepted (114eLHJp30809M04))
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