Re: Sendmail local LAN delivery
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: {Spam?} Re: Sendmail local LAN delivery
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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail local LAN delivery
At 06:30 AM 7/24/2008, Bruno Joho wrote: Hi folks we have a inside the Lab (Class B Net, eg: bnet.ourdomain.com) several workstations (eg: host1.intra015.bnet.ourdomain.com) in different Class C Net (eg.intra015.bnet.ourdomain.com). There is a Mail Hub outside the Class B Net which communicates with the Internet and delivers the mails sent by the workstations. All workstations have a Smarthost entry in the cf file. Incoming mails are collected by the mailhub, which provides IMAP and POP access for all workstations. No mail coming from the Internet will be delivered directly to the workstations. Everything works fine, exept one (small) problem. How can I configure the sendmal.cf from the local workstations to send the mail addressed to a neighbour workstation (eg. from host1.intra015.bnet.ourdomain.com to host2.intra016.bnet.ourdomain.com) directly. Sending it to the mailhub and then sending it back to the Intranet is no option due to firewall restrictions. I apreciate any help, thanks Bruno Bruno, If I understand your question correctly, you will need to smarthosts, one on the LAN side, and one on the WAN/internet side. You will have to setup the LAN smarthost to forward mail to the WAN smarthost that it cannot deliver. You will have to enable the LAN smarthost and WAN smarthost to be able to pass mail through your firewall. Sendmail uses DNS for most host resolution, so you will need to setup MX records for the various LAN hosts to go to the LAN smarthost. Hope this helps. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
