Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail

2003-12-23 Thread Feroz F. Basir
HI again, Thank everybody for giving me some feedback. I got it to work at last. I created /etc/mail/service.switch and put "hosts files". Edit my sendmail.cf again and uncomment line to use service.switch file. wow lots of email being sent at once. # service switch file (name hardwired on Solari

Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail

2003-12-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Feroz F. Basir wrote: My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? Sendmail is trying to perform an MX lookup of domain.com, and then will fall back to using an A record (or the /etc/hosts file) if that fails. Do I need to setup DNS ser

Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail

2003-12-23 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Feroz F. Basir wrote: > Hi, > > My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use > DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I > thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our > mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to > resolve mail.domain

Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail

2003-12-23 Thread Feroz F. Basir
Hi, My mail server is within my LAN and we dont have/use DNS server. Why sendmail want to resolve domain.com? I thought using smart host will tranfer all mails to our mail.domain.com machine. I just use /etc/hosts file to resolve mail.domain.com to ip. Do I need to setup DNS server under fbsd4.9

Re: fbsd4.9 sendmail

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 03:27:00PM +, Feroz F. Basir wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody ever setup "smart host" using sendmail before? > This is on fbsd4.9. I edit sendmail.cf file and edit > line: > > DSmail.domain.com It's better to edit the `hostname`.mc file and then process that into a sendmail.c