Am Di, den 14.02.2006 schrieb Lovell Mcilwain um 2:15: > I seem to be in a bit of a pickle. I can't seem to get my Fedora Core 4 > machine to do smart relay to an smtp server that I have an account on to > be able to send mail. > > Work has decided to give me a new machine and with that comes web > restriction where I don't have access to send mail on port 587. So > since I still can connect to my home network, I want to be able to > forward mail to my home machine and have it relay mail on that port to > the external smtp server. > > I have been googling around and see that I need to configure my > sendmail.mc file with the following entries: > > dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.gmail.com') > define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `IPC $h 697')dnl > > then run the script that will update my sendmail.cf file. > > Issue 1. > > I don't have a default sendmail.cf file and I can't seem to find where > the .cf examples are on my machine. You deleted it by accident? rpm -V sendmail If you still have the sendmail.mc you can regenerate the sendmail.cf (given you have the sendmail-cf rpm installed). There must too be a submit.cf. > Issue 2 (Which is probably caused by issue one) > > When I run the m4 command I get the following: > [user@FC4FW share]$ m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc /etc/mail/sendmail.cf > /etc/mail/sendmail.mc:10: m4: Cannot open > /usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4: No such file or directory yum install sendmail-cf > I also tried looking at the submit.cf file which has a smart host entry > that I can put in it > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > DSsmtp.foo.bar Do not edit the .cf files! > But I don't see where I can specify a specific port number to send mail > on since the external server requires that I send mail on port 587. Why would you change the submission agent behaviour by editing submit.mc/.cf? > Questions1: > How can I generate the sendmail.cf file so that I can have the settings > I want or is it ok to just edit the submit.cf file? See above: don't edit either of them manually. If you want to use a different port for sending mail out, then do as you found out by googling. It is a Sendmail FAQ http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.39 > If it is ok to just edit the submit.cf file, how can make sure that I > can send mail on a specifc port to an external server that requires > authentication. First part was answered twice by me now. Second part, once you reconfigured a mailer to use a different port you too have to configure SMTP AUTH for Sendmail as client. Both are different and independent issues. How you configure Sendmail to send authentication data to a server is explained on http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html#smtpclient http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-812.html#812AUTH (Do not use confDEF_AUTH_INFO as that is deprecated and causes problem on Sendmail >= 8.12. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 02:28:11 up 3 days, 11:19, load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.08
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