sendmail configuration

Tue Sep 15 12:52:31 UTC 2009

below is the entry i got in submit.cf . I have just blanked out domain name.

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmx.<domainname>.com

Thanks,
Kalyan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>wrote:

> Please paste here exactly what the "DS" directive line says in
> submit.cf.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:12 a.m.
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: sendmail configuration
>
> Hi Gef,
> Thanks once again.
>
> yes... after the configuration mailer=esmtp got changed to mailer=relay
> but
> the relay is still pointing to root at localhost
>
> relay=root at localhost . How do I point relay to my smtp server. kindly
> advice.
>
> Thanks,
> kalyan
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Geofrey Rainey
> <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>wrote:
>
> > After you've made those changes, search inside the newly created file
> > for:
> >
> > # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
> > DSrelay-name.domain.com <http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/> <
> http://dsrelay-name.domain.com/>
>  >
> > What do you find?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar
> > Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:29 p.m.
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> >  Subject: Re: sendmail configuration
> >
> > Hi Gef,
> > Thanks a lot for your inputs.
> >
> > I made below mentioned changes to the submit.mc and configured
> > submit.cf.
> >
> > But still the sendmail uses the relay=root at localhost and the
> stat=queued
> > ,
> > mailer=esmtp.
> >
> > yes, I just need to send mails .please let me know if i am missing any
> > other
> > configurations
> >
> > Thanks,
> > kalyan
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Geofrey Rainey
> > <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>wrote:
> >
> > > Are you using mail to both receive and send, or only send?
> > >
> > > If you're using it to only send mail, then do the following:
> > >
> > > Go to /etc/mail, here you should find a file called submit.mc
> > >
> > > Edit this file and update the parameter and add something like this
> > > anywhere to the file:
> > >
> > > define('SMART_HOST','relay.domain.com')dnl
> > >
> > > And if there's an entry containing something like 'SMTP',
> '127.0.0.1'
> > > etc, comment it out by preceding it with dnl (or removing it or
> > > whatever).
> > >
> > > Then type the following:
> > >
> > > # m4 submit.mc > submit.cf
> > >
> > > (You'll need to ensure two packages are installed for this,
> > sendmail-cf
> > > and m4)
> > >
> > > If you're using sendmail to receive mail, submit sendmail.mc/cf for
> > each
> > > submit.mc/cf above, then restart sendmail.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 10:58 p.m.
> > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > > Subject: sendmail configuration
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > > I am trying to configure sendmail on Linux server.
> > >
> > > After the configuration the maillog show below message:
> > >
> > > Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924: from=root,
> > > size=70,
> > > class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
> > >
> >
> 200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U
> > > s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/> <
> http://3e.domain.com/> <
> > http://3e.domain.com/>>>,
> > > relay=root at localhost
> > > Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924:
> > > to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com <to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>,
> > > delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30070, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued
> > > Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927: from=root,
> > > size=83,
> > > class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
> > >
> >
> 200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U
> > > s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/> <
> http://3e.domain.com/> <
> > http://3e.domain.com/>>>,
> >  > relay=root at localhost
> > > Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927:
> > > to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com <to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>,
> > > delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30083, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued
> > > The mail status is showing as queued which makes me think that  the
> > > sendmail
> > > configuarion is not properly done.
> > >
> > > how to I make the existing mail=esmtp to mailer=relay and
> > > relay=root at localhost to relay=<smtpserver.domain.com>
> > >
> > > I am new to this topic. Kindly give your inputs which ll be very
> > helpful
> > > to
> > > proceed further.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kalyan
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