Help: -- How to setup sendmail.mc and /etc/mail/authinfo for sbcglobal.net users??

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:23 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Monday, April 10, 2006 1:52 PM -0700 Robinson Tiemuqinke 
> <hahaha_30k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >  in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc the argument to SMARTHOST
> > should be '[smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com]', while in
> > /etc/mail/authinfo we can not use
> > smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com directly b/c it is just an
> > alias name, instead, we should use the DNS resolved
> > true name that it points to.
> 
> I don't recall seeing square brackets in a SMARTHOST example before. Does 
> SMARTHOST go through MX processing, such that the brackets are needed if 
> one intends the name to be interpreted as the final mail host? (I'm 
> familiar with square brackets in mailertable.)
Or another option is to use a mail client like evolution which is set up
to do this (I do this) and not screw around with sendmail at all.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>