On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 17:49, Gareth Williams wrote:

> [and now for something a little less 'political']

Amen.

> Does anyone speak /etc/sendmail.cf ? ;-)

Err, yup.

> I have never seen a config file such as this - obfusticated is an 

Oh come on.  It's not *that* bad.  At least its 7 bit. :)

> understatement. I only managed to find one place in there; "smtp client 
> options" - I pointed it at my upstream ISP, but it doesn't seem to work.

Look for this

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS 

And fill in the blank bit after DS with the fqdn of your upstream relay.


> 
> Also, I understand it's not good to run sendmail if you don't have it properly 
> configured (even if it was configured as an open relay though, for argument 
> sake, it's behind a firewall). Still, this is my first time playing around 

Sendmail default is pretty secure these days.  There is an access (no
not *that* one) database which determines who gets relayed and who gets
blocked.  Check out www.sendmail.org for the details.

Cheers, Rex

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