Sendmail and SMTP AUTH
Kenneth Porter
shiva at sewingwitch.com
Fri Jul 9 16:16:56 UTC 2004
--On Friday, July 09, 2004 6:07 PM +0200 Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>> I use define(`SMART_HOST',`[mail.bellsouth.net]') in
>> sendmail.mc. This has been working well since long before FC2.
>
> Why the Bellsouth SMTP server in squared brackets?
I haven't seen that done in SMART_HOST, but in mailertable the square
brackets mean that the host is the actual SMTP host. Without them, sendmail
does a DNS lookup on the name looking for an MX record, assuming that the
name is an email domain, not a particular host.
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