setting up mail and/or sendmail to use third party SMTP gateway.

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:28:45PM -0500, RThimble at century-bank.com wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> I have been getting bogged down and confused with the documentation on 
> setting up mail to send to a SMTP gateway. The problem is there is no 
> internal MX record(s) in DNS and we will not be adding any. I want to send 
> output  to my corporate email account from our snort sensors when rules 
> are changed through oinkmaster. Any ideas on where I can start would be 
> useful. 

The simplest way with sendmail is to create a file
/etc/mail/mailertable  with a single line:

.   smtp:[smtp-server.your-isp.com]


(yes, it starts  with a period, then whitespace, then the rest.)

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux