mailing out

[Swaytech]

I've got the server setup and its running quite sweet, but I've run into a problem


I've been emailing out the logwatch to a hotmail addy all succesfully, but when a change it to an isp addy for example ntlworld.com it errors and get it sent back to the root

(reason: 553 xx.xx.xx does not exist)... now its true this does not exist as its only a test server.

But i do have access to the company smtp server mail.xx.com

I have tried changing a few settings but only succeded to make it worse, its now back to original install config

So how do I configure sendmail to use the companies smtp

Thanks for any help

[gavinw6662]

if you are trying to use a company e-mail server to send your message that is called smart hosting. And that is an option at the top of the sendmail config. What that does, is typically you use it to designate your isp's mail server, so you send the message to your ISP's mail server to process it. Rather that process it on your mailserver. Hope that helps.

[Swaytech]

Right I've done the following:-

Sevice sendmail stop

Edited vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
Removed dnl from infront of smart host and put in the host name of the mail server which I can ping and it resolves to an ip.

dnl #
define(`SMART_HOST',`xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx)
dnl #

Closed and saved

installed sendmail-cf via yum

run

make -C /etc/mail

to generate a new

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf

Checked to see if the mail server is in there

vi /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSxxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx

which it is

I still get errors when sending

(reason: 550-Verification failed for <root@test.server.org>) which is name of the server......

I'd like to change it so that appears to come from gateway@ourcompany.com I Take it I use the masquarade function... any pointers

Sorry sendmail newbie

[Omega Blue]

I think your company server needs to be configured as well. Open relaying is a thing of the past.

[Swaytech]

Well I can create a user "gateway"

so his address would be gateway@ourcompany.com I could then forward any return email addy to my own box...

I'll set it up in a mo, but still need to set up the MASQUERADE

[Swaytech]

I'm trying to use the following tutorial:-

http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0009.html

I'm not creating the

FEATURE(authinfo)dnl in the sendmail.mc

and not creating

etc/mail/authinfo
or
etc/mail/authinfo.db

as I do not require smtp autentication with this smtp server

Then

/etc/mail/userdb
gateway:root gateway@mydomain.com

makemap btree /etc/mail/userdb.db < /etc/mail/userdb

then restart sendmail

running
/usr/sbin/sendmail -bv root@localhost

gives
root@localhost... deliverable: mailer local, user root

running
/usr/sbin/sendmail -bv gateway@mydomain.com

gives
gateway@mydomain.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host mail.mydomain.com, user gateway@mydomain.com

So it says it works but mailing out the logwatch to either an external on now hotmail doesn't work.....

anyideas

[smfinley]

See the "Special note on configuring sendmail for PHP using your email provider's SMTP (simple mail transport protocol)" in the PHP and Perl section of Fedora Core 4 Installation Notes.