if you don't have a resolvable domain, you might well have issues with receiving the emails at the other end ...
if you're using a smart-host you might not have this trouble, but if you're not able to reverse lookup your IP address your email will be rejected by the remote host. segments from my sendmail.mc, not that I use sendmail any more since the company took the decision to move to office365 ... VERSIONID(`@(#)main-v7sun.mc 1.2 (Sun) 01/27/98') OSTYPE(solaris2.ml)dnl DOMAIN(solaris-generic)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com) FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(domain.com) FEATURE(`nocanonify') FEATURE(use_cw_file) FEATURE(`access_db') # to create /etc/mail/access.db (for allowed local hosts) do 'makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/sendmail.access' define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,restrictqrun,noreceipts,noexpn,novrfy,noetrn')dnl define(`confDONT_PRUNE_ROUTES', `True')dnl define(`confCOPY_ERRORS_TO', `postmaster')dnl define(`confSEPARATE_PROC', `True')dnl define(`confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER', `time')dnl define(`confMIN_QUEUE_AGE', `30m')dnl define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `2d')dnl define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN_URGENT', `4h')dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `[salmon190-19]')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `domain.com') MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl On 22 August 2017 at 20:48, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone here show a working example of sendmail setup for single > user HOST sending mail out by relay to a `smarthost' > > More explicitly, the host has no REAL domain name just a made up domain > of the home lan, not resolvable from internet. > > I would guess such a host would be doing something with > `genericstable', or `masquerading' of a resolovable domain or maybe > both. > > My internet provider is comcast and far as I know, short of a > commercial contract, do not give there users home hosts domain names, > but a dynamic IP. > > I'd really like to see a working setup example of sendmail.mc for a > similar kind of setup as I've described. > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
