[Cialug] sendmail

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, n.d wrote:
> i apologize. i did not mean that it will be recieving mail. it will be 
> generating it and it needs to send it out.
> would a line like:
> .    esmtp:192.168.0.*

No, you need all of the pieces I put. The thing in the [] is the IP of the 
mail server you want things to go out of. You need brackets to skip  MX 
lookups.

> be what i'm looking for?? (in /etc/mail/mailertable)
>
> Dave Weis wrote:
>
>> 
>> why is your web server receiving inbound mail? or is your web server 
>> generating outbound mail? You can edit /etc/mail/mailertable and add a line 
>> like
>> 
>> .        esmtp:[hostname or ip]
>> 
>>> From /etc/mail run make, restart sendmail, and see what happens.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, n.d wrote:
>> 
>>> i want it to send all mail it gets to another server. nondiscriminant is 
>>> what i'm looking for.  i've tried smtp direct delivery and its being 
>>> stupid for some reason and i'm not in the mood to fix it heh. so i'm going 
>>> to try sendmail and pray that does that job while i get around to fixing 
>>> the smtp issue.
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> 
>>> 
>>> John Roach wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yes, Do you just want your server to send it off to a different box , or
>>>> do you want to do criteria based filtering? If you are using Perl or php
>>>> on your forms, it can output to sendmail for SMTP direct delivery. If
>>>> you don't want any other relaying, you can turn off sendmail and let it
>>>> be called command line only for outbound.
>>>> John Roach
>>>> Information Technology
>>>> Easter Seals Iowa
>>>> (515) 274-1529 Ext. 276
>>>> 
>>>> T
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
>>>> Behalf Of n.d
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:01 PM
>>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>> Subject: [Cialug] sendmail
>>>> 
>>>> is there a way i can use sendmail so it redirects all mail it gets to a
>>>> different server?
>>>> 
>>>> i want to have all mail traffic generated from my website to get handled
>>>> internally and then sent to its final destination. there will be no
>>>> incoming connections on this sendmail other than from the webserver
>>>> itself. i hope this made sense.
>>>> i would look for the answer to this myself, but i really don't even know
>>>> what i'm looking for.
>>>> thanks.
>>>> 
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