Sendmail

Garry Williams gtwilliams at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 14:58:23 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> My ISP is called eircom.net .
> So I uncommented and edited the line
> define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.eircom.net')dnl
> in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc ,
> and followed the instructions at the head of this file
> to give the command "make -C /etc/mail".

I think you want

    define(`SMART_HOST', `[smtp.eircom.net]')dnl

instead.  The square brackets tell sendmail *not* to look up the MX
for the host -- just use the A record for the relay host.  Some ISPs
have a different host defined for the MX host associated with the
customer relay host.

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Garry Williams +1 678 656-4579




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