Help with smart host please

[Kevin Miller]

I'm probably missing something here, but I'd just add the smarthost to the
DNS if you're timing out.  Wouldn't that do it?

...Kevin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Fiebig [mailto:mailscanner at ELKNET.NET]
>Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:14 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Help with smart host please
>
>
>I have my MS server configured to send 100% of its mail to a
>smart host for delivery. I am using the standard sendmail
>install, so I set up the smart host (talia.elknet.net) by
>editing the /etc/sendmail.cf file as follows:
>
>  # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
>  DStalia.elknet.net
>
>While this does work, in that my MS server does send its
>messages to talia for delivery, I have one problem that sort
>of makes the whole smarthost concept useless...
>
>The outbound sendmail on my MS server still does all the DNS
>lookups on the messages before it sends them on to the
>smarthost. I have thousands of messages sitting in my mqueue
>due to DNS lookup failures or timeouts. The whole idea of the
>smarthost is to blindly send the messages on to the smarthost
>and let it worry about delivery.
>
>Can someone please give me the step by step solution on how to
>get sendmail on my MS server to just send the messages on and
>not bother looking them up first in DNS?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Alan
>