a new sendmail question

[Les Mikesell]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> I have tried to poke around in google for this before,
> but never found a satisfactory answer.
> 
> Say I'm not running my own server, I don't have a domain name,
> i.e., a typical home computer.
> 
> Can I configure sendmail to shuffle local mail around to
> local mailboxes, and take mail to external addresses
> sent by me and direct it to my ISP smtp server (which
> needs an SSL connection and user and password
> authorization).

Yes. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/Servers/MailServer/Sendmail 
covers most of this.  You also need the smtp auth portion from
http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/4214 (or just google for some 
other smtp auth examples).

> Or is there something that can act a lot like sendmail
> but is easier to configure to do this sort of thing?

If you edit the sendmail.mc file instead of touching sendmail.cf 
directly, sendmail isn't that bad.

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   Les Mikesell
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