Can anybody help me with a sendmail configuration problem?
I have built a small class C network at home: sage (a dial-up
gateway), chickie and bigdog. All machines run redhat 7.
I want mail to the local network to be delivered immediately and
outside mail to be queued.
I have googled and tried to read the sendmail documentation (which is
nearly as obscure as your average piece of NSW legislation).
The problem is that if I define a SMART_HOST, then mail is not
delivered to the local network. If I do not define it, then mail is
not delivered to the world. What the HELL am I missing?
The configuration file is adapted from the one that comes with redhat
7.0. It is:
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divert(-1)
dnl This is the macro config file used to generate the /etc/sendmail.cf
dnl file. If you modify thei file you will have to regenerate the
dnl /etc/sendmail.cf by running this macro config through the m4
dnl preprocessor:
dnl
dnl m4 /etc/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
dnl
dnl You will need to have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to
dnl work.
include(`/usr/lib/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')
define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl
VERSIONID(`linux setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(hermes.net.au)dnl
undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl
undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl
define('ALIAS_FILE','/etc/aliases')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericsdomain')dnl
define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.hermes.net.au')dnl
define(`confAUTO_REBUILD')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/sendmail.st')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
define(`confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE', `/etc/mail/service.switch')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl
FEATURE(`access_db')dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
dnl We strongly recommend to comment this one out if you want to protect
dnl yourself from spam. However, the laptop and users on computers that do
dnl not hav 24x7 DNS do need this.
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
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Thanks for any help,
Alan
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