Sendmail doesn't use /etc/hosts and you'll need to specify it's FQDN
instead..
I'm pretty sure I tried this and it failed though there maybe a DNS ignore
function somewhere..
Easier to put the FQDN though.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Stalker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 12:51 PM
To: SLUG
Subject: [SLUG] Making sendmail relay to another mail server
I have a system running sendmail that is behind a firewall (private
network). On the outside of the firewall is our mail server. I have
already configured the firewall to accept mail and relay it to the mail
server where it can be sent to the outside world; I have verified this
works by telneting (from the intenral system) to the firewall on port 25
and manually sending a message.
The problem is that sendmail doesn't seem to be forwarding the mail to
the fierwall properly.
In the sendmail.cf file there is the line DSfirewall (firewall is
defined in the /etc/host file as the firewalls internal IP address)
If I try to manually send a message and watch what it is doing (ex:
sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null) the system just sits
there doing nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
- Doug
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