At 03:49 PM 7/27/2008, Bruno Joho wrote:
Hi Derek

thanks for the reply.
My intention was to deliver the mails between the workstations on the
LAN directly. Every Workstation
on the LAN would have an appropriate cf file which forwards mails with
a destination on the WAN - to the
WAN-Smarthost, any mail going to a destination from inside the LAN
would be delivered
directly to the destination host without involving a (LAN) smarthost.
Is that possible somehow?

Thanks for your help

Bruno

That scenario is possible, but you may still need DNS MX records to point to the smart host as well. You can have multiple MX records for a domain (or subdomain) where the value field is higher for a farther away mail server, or for a secondary mail server. Sendmail uses DNS to figure routing along with the internal configuration file UNLESS you specify to sendmail to NOT use DNS.

So you have some choices in how you configure sendmail and/or DNS.

Also it may help you to test things on one system and bump up the sendmail logging so the /var/log/maillog file has more information. Use the option:
-O LogLevel=80
Or some other value than 80. You can add these options to your sendmail flags in /etc/rc.conf

        -Derek

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