sendmail relay question, please

[Stephen Swaney]

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> Behalf Of Steve Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:20 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: sendmail relay question, please
>
> Mr. Swaney,
>
> You really wouldn't believe how I had this working the way I needed it
> earlier in the day. I have both files, with the local-host-names file only
> containing localhosts. Right now, though, it seems to work with just the
> mailertable file containing lines such as:
>
> cnpapers.com    relay:[10.0.0.100]
>
> and relay-domains containing
>
> cnpapers.com
>
> Would you suggest still deleting the relay-domains file? What should be in
> local-host-names then other than localhost?
>
> I'm discovering that sendmail can be configured millions of different ways
> and still work, and trillions of different ways and _not_ work.
>

As you've discovered, the mailertable map and most sendmail features can be
configured many different ways - and still work :)

I know the method I described works without the relay-domains files because
I have several sites configured that way.

If you configuration file is working, probably best to quit while you're
ahead.

Regards,

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

> Thanks loads for the help.
>
> Steve Campbell
> campbell at cnpapers.com
> Charleston Newspapers
>



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