[COLUG] sendmail question?

[Austin Gresham]

Yep, that's exactly what happens, hence the caveat at the end of my email.
Most people don't want this, but for some small shops it can work (probably
not Capital, though!) but it depends on how they are using it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: colug-bounces at colug.net 
> [mailto:colug-bounces at colug.net] On Behalf Of frank_rieder at bankone.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:16 PM
> To: Central OH Linux User Group
> Subject: RE: [COLUG] sendmail question?
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> If it would blindly send root mail, would it go to root at capital.edu?
> That could cause some confusion for whomever the mail is received.
> 
> 
> 
> Frank Rieder
> Operations Specialist
> Banc One Leasing Corporation
> Mail code OH1-1085
> Phone: 614-213-4591
> Fax: 614-213-2083
> toll-free 800-879-7184 ext. 34591
> Email : Frank Rieder at Bankone.com
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> If you want to send all email to another server, called a "Smart Host'
> (i.e.
> your Exchange server) use the Null Client feature in a new m4 
> configuration
> file, called "nullclient.mc" or whatever you choose.  Place 
> this file in
> the
> directory where your "m4" files are, sometimes 
> "/usr/lib/sendmail-cf" or
> equivalent.  You'll know the right directory when you see these
> subdirectories:
> 
> cf
> domain
> feature
> hack
> m4
> mailer
> ostype
> 
> Create the "nullclient.mc" file in this directory and add these lines:
> 
> include(`./m4/cf.m4')dnl
> FEATURE(`nullclient',`<nameofinternalmailserver>')dnl
> FEATURE(`nocanonify')dnl
> 
> Substitute "<nameofinternalmailserver>" with the hostname or 
> IP address of
> the Exchange Server.  Also, be cautious of the backticks vs 
> single quote
> characters above, it makes a big difference.
> 
> Save it and run:
> 
> # m4 nullclient.mc > sendmail.cf
> 
> Copy the sendmail.cf over the current sendmail.cf (should be 
> in /etc/mail)
> and restart sendmail.
> 
> That's a basic configuration, but it's a place to start.  Be 
> aware that
> this
> will blindly forward all email, even if sent to "root" or 
> another local
> account.  This may not be what you want.  If it's not, then 
> there are other
> slightly more complicated ways to do it.
> 
> -Austin
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> Austin Gresham              CATE, GCUX
> Avail Technologies, LLC
> voice: 740-881-0067
> fax:   740-881-0035
> email: mailto:austin.gresham at avail.com
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: colug-bounces at colug.net
> > [mailto:colug-bounces at colug.net] On Behalf Of Dave Reed
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:45 AM
> > To: colug at colug.net
> > Subject: [COLUG] sendmail question?
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> >
> > At work they switched to a new mail server (running MS exchange I
> > think). We still have Sun Solaris machines running sendmail. When a
> > message is sent to dreed at capital.edu it goes through the new mail
> > server and is delivered correctly, but when it is sent to 
> just dreed,
> > sendmail delivers it locally to /var/mail/dreed.
> >
> > The sysadmin is not a sendmail expert (nor a member of this 
> list) but
> > I told him I'd ask if anyone knew how to configure sendmail 
> to always
> > use a separate mailserver. He mentioned something about a "dumb" or
> > "null" setting but google hasn't found the answer for him yet.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
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