Hi: SuSE docs for SuSE7.1: /usr/share/doc/suse/suselxen/html/node310.html#6359: "SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST=mail-server.provider.de sendmail asks for the DNS names of every mail that is not delivered locally and tries to send the E-Mail via the SMTP protocol. This host might be anywhere on the internet and could have a rather slow connection to the local host. Setting this parameter allows you to set up an intermediate host that gets all your outgoing mail. Then this host becomes responsible for delivering your E-Mail. First Example: This is for a dialup connection. thus, you deliver all of your E-Mail directly to your ISP: SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST=smtp:mail.renonevada.net (I put my ISP mail server in the example) Now, when I go to /etc/rc.config, excited and happy that just maybe we can get this thing done, I go thru the damn file 4 times, and there just ain't any SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST field listed. Why? It looks like there's just about everything else matching up to the documentation, but this one! Anyone got a SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST listed in their rc.config file for SuSE7.1Pro? Thanks, Tom
Question: Are you using Kmail or another GUI client that is capable of relaying to your isp? If so..then what would be the reason to use a mailserver class MTA? It is really not nessasary. We can help you get this going..but I'm curious about the use of the sendmail MTA? * Tom Poe (tompoe@source.net) [010902 22:11]: ->Hi: SuSE docs for SuSE7.1: ->/usr/share/doc/suse/suselxen/html/node310.html#6359: ->"SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST=mail-server.provider.de ->sendmail asks for the DNS names of every mail that is not delivered locally ->and tries to send the E-Mail via the SMTP protocol. This host might be ->anywhere on the internet and could have a rather slow connection to the ->local host. Setting this parameter allows you to set up an intermediate ->host that gets all your outgoing mail. Then this host becomes responsible ->for delivering your E-Mail. ->First Example: This is for a dialup connection. thus, you deliver all of ->your E-Mail directly to your ISP: ->SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST=smtp:mail.renonevada.net ->(I put my ISP mail server in the example) -> ->Now, when I go to /etc/rc.config, excited and happy that just maybe we can ->get this thing done, I go thru the damn file 4 times, and there just ain't ->any SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST field listed. Why? -> ->It looks like there's just about everything else matching up to the ->documentation, but this one! Anyone got a SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST listed in ->their rc.config file for SuSE7.1Pro? Thanks, Tom -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org cat CE|ME|NT|XP > /dev/null
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:14:34PM -0700, Tom Poe wrote:
Hi: SuSE docs for SuSE7.1: /usr/share/doc/suse/suselxen/html/node310.html#6359: "SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST=mail-server.provider.de sendmail asks for the DNS names of every mail that is not delivered locally and tries to send the E-Mail via the SMTP protocol. This host might be anywhere on the internet and could have a rather slow connection to the local host. Setting this parameter allows you to set up an intermediate host that gets all your outgoing mail. Then this host becomes responsible for delivering your E-Mail. First Example: This is for a dialup connection. thus, you deliver all of your E-Mail directly to your ISP: SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST=smtp:mail.renonevada.net (I put my ISP mail server in the example)
Now, when I go to /etc/rc.config, excited and happy that just maybe we can get this thing done, I go thru the damn file 4 times, and there just ain't any SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST field listed. Why?
It looks like there's just about everything else matching up to the documentation, but this one! Anyone got a SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST listed in their rc.config file for SuSE7.1Pro? Thanks, Tom
The reason of your frustration is that this variable has moved to /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail.rc.config I don't know why it is not reflected in docs. If you try to change the value of the variable through YaST, it is found, but YaST does not tell you that it moved to a different file. As SuSE says, have fun :-) -Kastus
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