On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:46 -0500, Patrick Doyle wrote: > Thank you to all who replied to this. For some reason, gmail seems to > have misplaced some of the replies (which I read, but can no longer > find). > > Anyway, setting the SMART_HOST, and installing sendmail-cf, solved my problem. > > I should have thought about using SMART_HOST to configure my box to > just forward through the company's SMTP server, but I had monkey-mind > and was fixated on just trying to figure out how to convince sendmail > to use a specific IP address for mycompany.com instead of looking up > the MX record for it. Since you didn't quote the solution you used, I'll point out that the syntax to avoid MX lookups is to enclose a hostname or IP address in []'s. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx