Re: a new sendmail question

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Gerry Doris wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:
I have tried to poke around in google for this before,
but never found a satisfactory answer.

Say I'm not running my own server, I don't have a domain name,
i.e., a typical home computer.

Can I configure sendmail to shuffle local mail around to
local mailboxes, and take mail to external addresses
sent by me and direct it to my ISP smtp server (which
needs an SSL connection and user and password
authorization).

Or is there something that can act a lot like sendmail
but is easier to configure to do this sort of thing?

The short answer is that you can do what you want with sendmail. I used to run my own mail server but it was too much of a pain. My ISP doesn't allow servers to be run by users and some mail servers will not accept

I flatly refuse such accounts.

mail sent from dynamic addresses. I now use fetchmail to pull mail down

So configure your server to relay via your ISP's mail server, Probably you should, for other reasons. However, I also avoid dynamic IP and I've not had any problems sending mail direct to the recipeint's MX.

for all users (my family) from my ISP's servers. They access their mail directly from their mailboxes on my server which uses dovecot. All sent mail is sent to my mail server to be forwarded by sendmail to my ISP's server for delivery. I have sendmail configured to authenticate with the ISP server (also uses SSL and password).

I've used fetchmail extensively (possibly you will even find my name in the documentation), and it's good at what it does.


I like to run sendmail on my server as it allows me to use spamassassin and MailScanner. Between these two programs I only see one or two spam emails a week (hundreds are screened out and discarded everyday). I

How much good mail do you discard?


used to screen out quite a few virus emails but my ISP has been doing pretty well getting rid of those. I put this together a few years ago when my ISP was really struggling with mail. Since it's working so well I've just left it inplace.

It sounds complicated but it's really pretty straight forward.

I do not discard email in my mail systems. I refuse to accept it, or I filter suspected spam into users' spam folder. I have seen false positives - e*trade is stupid.

I also have a rough filter that drops email that may contain suspect attachments into users' Windwoes folders.




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