help...sendmail....SMTP

[Igaduma]

Hello all
I'm having pain in my head setting up sendmail on solaris using a mailrelay host.
I can sendmail to the internet using a perl script that does the SMTP protocol to our inhouse mailrelay.xxxxx.xx
but I would like sendmail to use this smtp server as a mailrelay.
this seems like a straightforwarded thing but after reading the man sendmail I can't see the tree's thru the forrest anymore.

I already added to /etc/hosts the ip hostname mailhost line but to no avail
syslog seems to tell me that root@localhost is being used as relay.

Any help...welcome as usual

Thanks,
Iga

 

[daFranze]

sendmail uses by default DNS, no local hosts file (ignoring nsswitch.conf). Make sure the domain's MX (the domain you need to configure in /etc/resolv.conf) points to your inhouse mailrelay.
Next, how did you configure the smarthost eg:
DSmailrelay.mydom.com
?

where are your mails? got stuck in local mqueue?

sendmail can be setup not using DNS (see sendmail.org)

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[Igaduma]

hi franz,
oktoberfest rocks, but only with belgium beer

It seems to work now, a php webpage mail function send a message thru the relay but it seems to take some time.
snoop tells me this when I execute the script:

armada -> srv029.domain01.homebase.be DNS C mailrelay.homebase.be. Internet MX ?
armada -> srv029.domain01.homebase.be DNS C mailrelay.homebase.be.domain01.homebase.be. Internet MX ?
armada -> srv029.domain01.homebase.be DNS C mailrelay.homebase.be.homebase.be. Internet MX ?
armada -> srv029.domain01.homebase.be DNS C mailrelay.homebase.be. Internet Addr ?
srv029.domain01.homebase.be -> armada DNS R mailrelay.homebase.be. Internet Addr 172.31.2.116


It is configured with mailrelay.homebase.be but it needs 3 lines and when then last reply is send from srv029 giving the IP adress, the mail is send.

Iga

 

[daFranze]

> oktoberfest rocks, but only with belgium beer
well, I never tried, but you might be right!

DNS might be slow, do you drive a secondary DNS (Caching) in your site?

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years