Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:50:16PM -0400, Alejandro Imass typed: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: ? ? ? ?The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one not to edit it directly so I edited the Hey Martin, this might not be the

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/04/2011 19:47, Martin McCormick wrote: After that, I did a make in that directory and things seemed to go well. After restarting sendmail, it still wanted to resolve normally and not use the gateway. Did you run?: # make all install restart That's the usual idiom after editing

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-21 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:45:29 +0200 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org articulated: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:50:16PM -0400, Alejandro Imass typed: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: ? ? ? ?The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one

Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Martin McCormick
The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one not to edit it directly so I edited the /etc/mail/my.name.domain.mc file as stated in documentation to cause this system to send all out-bound mail through a smart host. The .mc file part that adds the smart host looks like:

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 4/20/2011 2:47 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: dnl Dialup users should uncomment and define this appropriately dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') define(`SMART_HOST', `mailserver.okstate.edu') I usually do make make install make stop make start after the first make, you should

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/20/11 2:47 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one not to edit it directly so I edited the /etc/mail/my.name.domain.mc file as stated in documentation to cause this system to send all out-bound

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks to all. Somehow, I missed the make install. I will give it another try and it will probably work as it should. This is a great list and everybody is very nice even to those of us who have been running FreeBSD for many years but are trying new things. Greg Larkin writes: Try these

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:        The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one not to edit it directly so I edited the Hey Martin, this might not be the exact answer you're looking for but I despise sendmail but *love* FreeBSD so

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of April 20, 2011 3:50:16 PM -0400, Alejandro Imass is alleged to have said: There have been many requests to let us choose our favorite MTA for the base system. It seems things are moving in that direction since you will notice an option in the make config of the newer postfix versions