Re: complete rookie sendmail question

Ken Hawkins Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:23:41 -0800

alright I found an old blurb about handling a scenario similar to mine:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/ 014468.html

it essentially says:


If you want to get FreeBSD to forward your email to the MS-Exchange
server, you have to:

    1. make sure sendmail is running. (ie remove sendmail_* lines from
       /etc/rc.conf)
    2. # cd /etc/mail
    3. # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
    4. edit `hostname`.mc and uncomment the following line:

            define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')

    5. replace `your.isp.mail.server' with your Exchange server.
    6. # make
    7. # make install
    8. # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart

This will configure sendmail to send all non-local mail to the
Exchange Server for further processing (eg: to send email to the 'Net).

This is essetially what I need to do ('cept ours is not an EXCHANGE server) and if i follow this, put in bhost1.broadjam.net for the SMART_HOST and during make i get an error that it is looking for a domain file:

/usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 <box name>.mc > <box name>.cf m4: <box name>.mc at line 49: include(/usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/<box name>.m4): No such file or directory

i replaced our host name with <box name> in the output.

can anyone point me toward what I require to create a domain file for our <box name> in the /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/ area?

ken;
On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Ken Hawkins wrote:

inline...
On Feb 27, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-02-27 11:44, Ken Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Found out it was a firewall issue and that is open now. though my
problem has gone from connection refused to:
Feb 27 08:22:04 web1 sendmail[85505]: j1MIj4DI065443: <...>
delay=4+19:37:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=22920813,
relay=bhost1.broadjam.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed
out with bhost1.broadjam.net.
is there a timeout that I can set in sendmail to set a longer wait
time on this?
Something else is wrong now.  I can't connect to the SMTP port of
bhost1.broadjam.net, so I can't tell if it's down or just refusing my
attempt to connect.
I think it is just refusing your connection attempts.
Are you sure you should be sending outgoing email through that host?
yes.
my flags in my rc.conf are:
sendmail_enable="YES"
sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory.
This looks a bit wrong, if you are running a recent release of FreeBSD. The sendmail_enable option is *NOT* going to work with _flags. It is mostly a wrapper around the following:
        sendmail_submit_enable
        sendmail_outbound_enable
        sendmail_msp_queue_enable
You should definitely read the manpage of rc.sendmail, before setting
Sendmail-related options in your /etc/rc.conf file.  Pay very close
attention to the section ``RC.CONF VARIABLES''.
from my man rc.conf:
RC.CONF VARIABLES The following variables affect the behavior of rc.sendmail. They are defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and can be changed in /etc/rc.conf.

sendmail_enable (str) If set to ``YES'', run the sendmail(8) daemon at system boot time. If set to ``NO'', do not run a sendmail(8) daemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future release.

sendmail_flags (str) If sendmail_enable is set to ``YES'', these are the flags to pass to the sendmail(8) daemon.
and my settings are:
sendmail_enable="YES"
sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory.
the only thing that I see wrong here is that I do not need the -bd which tells sendmail to run as a daemon since sendmail_enable="YES" essentially does this. the other is to process the queue every 30 minutes. am I missing my problem here?

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