[thelist] Basic sendmail question
Ron
ronr at linuxdude.com
Fri Mar 24 19:44:40 CST 2006
The brackets were the secret with bellsouth. If I remember correctly,
this tells sendmail to not do the mx record lookup.
define(`SMART_HOST', `[mail.bellsouth.net]')
Brent Eades wrote:
>Hope this isn't too far off topic... anyway, I run a web server from
>home, using my DSL account to connect to the Internet.
>
>Recently I had to build a new server after my old (ancient) one finally
>packed it in. I have everything working fine, except for one small
>detail: my CGI scripts that rely on sendmail have stopped sending mail.
>Or more to the point, my ISP has stopped accepting the mail. When I
>check /var/log/maillog after running one of these scripts, I see:
>
>[snip] relay=to1.bellnexxia.net [snip] DSN: Service unavailable
>
>... where 'to1.bellnexxia.net' is my ISP's SMTP server. (In other words,
>I need to use my ISP's SMTP server to relay the mail sent by the
>scripts.) If my hazy memory serves me, the 'Service unavailable' message
>means my ISP is refusing the mail.
>
>I recall having to jump through some hoops to get sendmail working when
>I first set this stuff up years ago, but I forget the details. I have
>changed the SMART_HOST setting in my sendmail config to my ISP's SMTP
>server, and sendmail is successfully connecting. But I can't remember
>what else I have to configure to convince the server to accept the mail.
>
>For reference, my ISP is sympatico.ca, and my Linux distro is Fedora
>Core 4. My web server connects to my ISP through a router. Any and all
>help much appreciated.
>
>
>
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