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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:30:10 -0400
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Jim Phillips,
> > > What I want to do is to send email from the HP3000 to the internal mail
> > > server and have the mail server do its thing of sending the mail on its
> > > merry way (to the ISP if it is external or to a mailbox if it is
> > > internal).  Is Sendmail capable of doing this?
> >
> > Yes, sendmail is capable of doing this.  You'll need to configure sendmail
> > to use the NT machine as a "smart host" (IIRC).  Sendmail will then just
> > relay all outbound e-mail to the one configured smart host, and it's up to
> > the smart host to worry about final delivery or further relaying.
> >
> > I've personally never configured a smart host because my sendmails always
> > have full Internet access, but I do know this is a fairly common
> > configuration choice for Sendmail/iX users.
>
> Okay.  Is that easy to do?

I believe it consists in adding

define(`SMART_HOST',`that.nt.box')

to your sendmail.mc file and using m4 to rebuild your sendmail.cf file.
'Course this is untested, so YMMV.  There's some good information at
http://www.sendmail.org, by the by.

HTH,
Ted
--
Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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