Henrik ANDREASSON writes:
> I have a need to be able to send files as mail attachments in batch from
> our
> HP3K to a Notes SMTP/MTA wich serves as a gateway to out Notes mail world.
> The need is to send it to >one specific< server, not a server given by the
> mail address' domain MX record.
>
> We currently use Telamon's MAILNM utility to send simple messages or
> files/spoolfiles as text messages via the Notes SMTP/MTA to our users.
> This works perfectly as MAILNM accepts a simple IP address/hostname as the
> host to contact to deliver the mail.

Instead of addressing your mail to [log in to unmask], sendmail will
also let you address it with an IP address, i.e. markb@[159.115.1.5].

> The problem being (from what I have found out about the two so far) is that
> they will try to send the message (like you would expect a mail client to
> do) by ; Look at the To: address domain, do a DNS lookup for the MX record
> of that domain , connect to it, deliver..
> But not to a specific server of >my< choice.

How about adding a special MX record to your DNS that just points to the one
specific server you're interested in?

Or instead of addressing your e-mail to [log in to unmask], try using
[log in to unmask]

> Anyone have some idea of other (free :) tools available or ways to tweak
> others like SendMail.

You should be able to do what you're asking with Sendmail.  Quoting really,
REALLY briefly from /SENDMAIL/PUB/sendmail-8.9.1-m/cf/README:

: If you want all outgoing mail to go to a central relay site, define
: SMART_HOST as well.  Briefly:
:
:       LOCAL_RELAY applies to unqualified names (e.g., "eric").
:       MAIL_HUB applies to names qualified with the name of the
:               local host (e.g., "[log in to unmask]").
:       SMART_HOST applies to names qualified with other hosts.

Sendmail can do just about anything.  The hard part is figuring out how.  ;-)
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