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

[Paul Howarth]

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.)

Yes, that's correct.

Paul.