On Thu, March 17, 2005 12:28 pm, Peter Glassenbury said: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > >>Due to the fun that the university has been causing me, >> > ?? What are we doing now :-) Refusing mail from my own server, forcing me to use a smarthost. Cruel and heartless, that's what you are (: > >>So, I added... >> >>define (`SMART_HOST', `smtp.ihug.co.nz')dnl >> >> > Is that a correct line ??? My sendmail book (and my config file) > have the second parameter with a delivery agent in it > ie -- ... , smtp:smtp.ihug.co.nz')dnl example taken from O'Reilly's Building, Installing and Administering sendmail by Costales and Allman, 3rd Edition. page 159. I've installed the debian sendmail-doc package, and it doesn't tell me much more (v8.12.11, so not absolutely bleeding edge) ): > > In your second example below, you have put one in (esmtp:) which is > just the extended version of smtp. > > >>to the end of the file, rebuilt it. Everything worked fine, except that >>there was no mail being delivered, as adding this line had trashed dns >>support for sendmail. Why? I dunno, >> > It didn't know which channel to send it out on ?? uucp, smtp esmtp Default is relay. I don't think replacing that with esmtp will fix my sendmail dns resolution problems, as the isp *should* have set it up to accept these connections. I think it's the []'s that have done that. I just can't get my head around why, and what the difference is between the way sendmail resolves dns and the way the rest of this server does!
Any pointers are gratefully received. > >>Anyway, loads more digging, and I came up with an alternate format of the >>above line, which now does work. >> >>define (`SMART_HOST', `esmtp:[smtp.ihug.co.nz]')dnl >> >> > > Pete > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Glassenbury Computer Science dept. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Canterbury > +64 3 3642987 ext 7762 New Zealand > > Cheers, Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
