On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:22 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:14:40AM +1000, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > Is there any elegant way to have a laptop DHCP client have its sendmail
> > configured properly?  In all the cases I have to deal with, my laptop is
> > a DHCP client is behind a NAT firewall.
> 
> in sendmail.mc:
> 
>   define(`SMART_HOST',`YOUR_ISP_UPSTREAM_MAILSERVER')
> 
> then do a make in /etc/mail and restart sendmail

I'm not getting it, this morning.

In my case, the value of YOUR_ISP_UPSTREAM_MAILSERVER depends on which
firewall I'm behind, since all the ISPs in question gate client
connections as being from their own customers' IP addresses, not the
whole Internet.  So one size definitely doesn't fit all.

Are you suggesting I need to edit sendmail.mc every time I boot the
machine?  Is there a way to automagically have the DHCP client daemon
run a script to do it, instead?  Has this already been done, in a Debian
package?  How does the script get the right value for
YOUR_ISP_UPSTREAM_MAILSERVER from the DHCP server?


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