[olug] Senmail relaying

[Terry]

--- Ryan O'Rourke <ryano at ch-gifts.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 17:57, Terry wrote:
> 
> > Also, haha, forgot to tell you but are you running
> the
> > following after you edit the file:
> > makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable <
> > /etc/mail/mailertable
> > ??
> > This will create the hash db that stores all this
> > stuff for sendmail...
> > 
> > So, now that we are all confused....do the
> following:
> > 1) put the following in /etc/mail/mailertable:
> > .somedomain.com	smtp:[mail.someotherdomain.com]
> > 2) makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable <
> > /etc/mail/mailertable
> > 3) restart sendmail
> > 4) Make sure you do NOT have the domain listed in
> the
> > Cw config file.  (For me that is
> > /etc/mail/local-host-names)
> > 5) Make sure you DO have the domain listed in the
> > relay domains file (For me that is
> > /etc/mail/relay-domains)
> > 6) Restart sendamil
> > 7) Sendmail an email to
> recipient at someotherdomain.com
> 
> Thanks for the great help, Terry! This pretty much
> worked as planned.
> The only thing I had to do differently was remove
> the leading dot from
> the domain. I also changed the makemap syntax
> slightly, although I don't
> know if it matters:
> makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable.db <
> /etc/mail/mailertable
> 
> /etc/mail/mailertable:
> somedomain.com smtp:[mail.someotherdomain.com]
> 
> /etc/mail/relay-domains:
> somedomain.com       RELAY
> 
> -- Ryan


Ya, my makemap syntax was wrong, you would have
overwritten your mailertable file,  :)  oops.
good catch

Glad you got it working.


=====
Terry


	
		
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