Hi Gef, Thanks once again. yes... after the configuration mailer=esmtp got changed to mailer=relay but the relay is still pointing to root@localhost relay=root@localhost . How do I point relay to my smtp server. kindly advice. Thanks, kalyan On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > After you've made those changes, search inside the newly created file > for: > > # "Smart" relay host (may be null) > DSrelay-name.domain.com <http://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/> < > 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/> < > 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. 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