After you've made those changes, search inside the newly created file for: # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DSrelay-name.domain.com What do you find? -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:29 p.m. To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: sendmail configuration Hi Gef, Thanks a lot for your inputs. I made below mentioned changes to the submit.mc and configured submit.cf. But still the sendmail uses the relay=root@localhost and the stat=queued , mailer=esmtp. yes, I just need to send mails .please let me know if i am missing any other configurations Thanks, kalyan On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Are you using mail to both receive and send, or only send? > > If you're using it to only send mail, then do the following: > > Go to /etc/mail, here you should find a file called submit.mc > > Edit this file and update the parameter and add something like this > anywhere to the file: > > define('SMART_HOST','relay.domain.com')dnl > > And if there's an entry containing something like 'SMTP', '127.0.0.1' > etc, comment it out by preceding it with dnl (or removing it or > whatever). > > Then type the following: > > # m4 submit.mc > submit.cf > > (You'll need to ensure two packages are installed for this, sendmail-cf > and m4) > > If you're using sendmail to receive mail, submit sendmail.mc/cf for each > submit.mc/cf above, then restart sendmail. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalyan Sundar > Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 10:58 p.m. > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: sendmail configuration > > Hi All, > I am trying to configure sendmail on Linux server. > > After the configuration the maillog show below message: > > Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924: from=root, > size=70, > class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=< > 200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U > s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/>>>, > relay=root@localhost > Sep 15 12:19:30 ebizrep sendmail[31924]: n8F8GoWo031924: > to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com <to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>, > delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30070, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued > Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927: from=root, > size=83, > class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=< > 200909150817.n8F8H5Us031927@<servername>.domain.com<200909150817.n8F8H5U > s031927@%3Cservername%3E.domain.com <http://3e.domain.com/>>>, > relay=root@localhost > Sep 15 12:19:45 ebizrep sendmail[31927]: n8F8H5Us031927: > to=<mail_id>@<domain>.com <to=%3Cmail_id%3E@%3Cdomain%3E.com>, > delay=00:02:40, mailer=esmtp, pri=30083, dsn=4.4.3, stat=queued > The mail status is showing as queued which makes me think that the > sendmail > configuarion is not properly done. > > how to I make the existing mail=esmtp to mailer=relay and > relay=root@localhost to relay=<smtpserver.domain.com> > > I am new to this topic. Kindly give your inputs which ll be very helpful > to > proceed further. > > Thanks, > Kalyan > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > ========================================================== > For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us > online at tvnz.co.nz > ========================================================== > CAUTION: This e-mail and any attachment(s) contain information that > is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). This information > is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ========================================================== For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us online at tvnz.co.nz ========================================================== CAUTION: This e-mail and any attachment(s) contain information that is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). This information is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
