[Cialug] sendmail

[Dave Weis]

why is your web server receiving inbound mail? or is your web server 
generating outbound mail? You can edit /etc/mail/mailertable and add a 
line like

.		esmtp:[hostname or ip]

>From /etc/mail run make, restart sendmail, and see what happens.

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, n.d wrote:

> i want it to send all mail it gets to another server. nondiscriminant is what 
> i'm looking for.  i've tried smtp direct delivery and its being stupid for 
> some reason and i'm not in the mood to fix it heh. so i'm going to try 
> sendmail and pray that does that job while i get around to fixing the smtp 
> issue.
>
> thanks
>
>
> John Roach wrote:
>
>> Yes, Do you just want your server to send it off to a different box , or
>> do you want to do criteria based filtering? If you are using Perl or php
>> on your forms, it can output to sendmail for SMTP direct delivery. If
>> you don't want any other relaying, you can turn off sendmail and let it
>> be called command line only for outbound. 
>> 
>> John Roach
>> Information Technology
>> Easter Seals Iowa
>> (515) 274-1529 Ext. 276
>> 
>> T
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
>> Behalf Of n.d
>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:01 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: [Cialug] sendmail
>> 
>> is there a way i can use sendmail so it redirects all mail it gets to a
>> different server?
>> 
>> i want to have all mail traffic generated from my website to get handled
>> internally and then sent to its final destination. there will be no
>> incoming connections on this sendmail other than from the webserver
>> itself. i hope this made sense.
>> i would look for the answer to this myself, but i really don't even know
>> what i'm looking for.
>> thanks.
>> 
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