[ILUG] null client configuration for sendmail

[Walter Faleiro]

Hi Badger,
There is no submit.mc under /etc/ for both mankind and splendor. Were you
referring to sendmail.mc by any chance and that too in /etc/mail?

Regards,
--Walter

On 8/30/06, Badger <badger at scattermail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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