On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:03 +0000, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone point me to a solution for a little problem I have ? > > I send out newsletters a few times a month for some church organisations > I work with - all fully opt-in, don't worry :-) Our mailhost does all > its own outgoing SMTP work, so there is no smart-host defined in the > sendmail.mc file. However, some ISPs - charter.net in particular - won't > accept mail directly from our mailhost and so I have to keep on switching > over to use out ISPs smarthost to deliver those dozen or so emails. > > Can I (easily) tell sendmail to deliver *@charter.net through our ISP's > smarthost, while handling all the rest of our outgoing SMTP stream > directly as we currently do ? > I'm a Postfix user myself (using transport table/maps) however if my understanding is correct a sendmail "mailertable" entry might just do the trick. # Add me to /etc/mail/mailertable and issue a "makemap # hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable" # # This will send all mail for @charter.net via the ISP SMTP relay while # leaving other mail to be sent directly as per normal config charter.net smtp:[my.isp.smtp.relay] ------------------------------------------ See http://www.sendmail.org/m4/mailertables.html for further explanation. > Jonathan > Michael. -- Michael Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in Brisbane, Australia "Be master of your mind, not mastered by mind"