[ILUG] null client configuration for sendmail

[Badger]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:41:01PM +0530, Walter Faleiro wrote:
> Kindly ignore the mistyped domain seqxxx. its example.
> 
> Also when you sent mails to badger it shoud go to badger at example.com and not
> to badger at gonzo.example.com
> 
> Regards
> --Walter
> 
> On 8/30/06, Walter Faleiro <curtorkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >Hi Badge
> >
> >
> >Note the difference
> >
> >Connecting from a host mankind.
> >
> >
> >
> > mail -v walter
> >Subject: test mail
> >.
> >Cc:
> >Null message body; hope that's ok
> >walter... Connecting to [ 127.0.0.1] via relay...
> >
> >
> >And connecting from a working host splendor
> >
> > mail -v walter
> >Subject: test mail
> >Cc:
> >Null message body; hope that's ok
> >walter... Connecting to server02.sequencedesign.com. via relay...
> >
> >
> >How do I make the first one connect to server02 via relay instead of
> >connecting to 127.0.0.1
> >
> >Regards,
> >--Walter


Okay, you had me scratching my head there for a minute Walter, but I
think I've got your answer for you. You can forget about sendmail.mc.
Indeed, you don't even need to be running sendmail in server mode on
fedora.example.com. 

Look at the file /etc/submit.mc. On your host mankind this should have a
line like this in it:

   FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl
   
Change that line to:

   FEATURE(`msp', `server02.example.com')dnl
   
and then to a 'make -C /etc/mail' and (with any hope) this should give 
you what you want. 

I don't know if there are any consequences to running sendmail with such
a configuration so you might want to look into that.

- badge