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Re: tlug: sendmail question



Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com> writes:

> > OK, if I have a linux box whose sendmail needs to route outgoing mail
> > through another smtp server (ie, it's behind a firewall of some sort),
> > how do you configure sendmail to do that?
> 
> The technical term for this is "smarthost" or "relayhost".
> 
> in sendmail.cf
> 
> DS<smarthost>

Better practice is to edit the master "*.mc" file, and generate
the new sendmail.cf using m4; the content of the master file is
easier to interpret.

Cheers,
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