On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:13:14AM -0700, Gene Bomgardner wrote: > > > On 15 Jul 2002 at 15:05, Daniel Bye wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:45:31AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: > > > Hello- > > > I want to be able to send email outside my network using pine or just > > > regular mail. Right now I can only send email to users on my local network. > > > What do I need to do to sendmail to get it to send mail outside my network? > > > thanks, > > > brian > > > > Look for the DS directive in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: > > > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > > DS > > > > Insert the name of your ISP's SMTP relay host in here, restart > > sendmail and I think that's it... > > > > Dan > > > > -- > > Daniel Bye > > Hmmm... I just installed sendmail and it emailed outside the > network right out of the box. No changes needed. > > I seem to have no need to use the ISP's SMTP host at all. > Sendmail seems to just contact the receiving host's SMTP mailer > directly. There must be something else going on.
I think it depends on many things - many mail servers are configured to reject mail from hosts without valid forward and reverse DNS lookups - which could well mean whole blocks of addresses used for dial-up or cable/DSL access won't work (this all depends further on your ISP - have they bothered to set up DNS?) Brian - if you're still having problems, let us see your current config and some extracts from your maillog. I'm not a sendmail person (I find exim much easier, partiularly the format of the config files!), so perhaps I shouldn't have been so quick to step in with an answer. Sorry, 'n' all that... ;-) Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
