On a late note here. The actual line you add to the sendmail.cf so that smarthost is used is Ds So if I need to use smtp.isp.net as my smarthost the line would read: Dssmtp.isp.net There you have it. On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:32:55 +1000 (EST), Geoff Shang wrote: >Hi: > >The disadvantage of using pine to send and receive mail directly to and >from your ISP is that you need to be online to do stuff. You may as well >telnet or SSH into their host and use pine there. If you set up your own >SMTP server properly, you can do neat stuff like read and write mail while >offline (like I am doing now), and have linux send your mail off when you >next log into your ISP. > >MTA's are complex due to all the stuff they can and should be able to do, >which is why worked examples are a good way to start with these things. I >use exim so I can't help with sendmail. However, I doubt that you need to >actually edit source code to configure sendmail to send to a smarthost. Raul A. Gallegos -- raul at asmodean.net msn id: ragallegos at hotmail.com -- icq: 5283055 http://www.asmodean.net
