[X Servers] Sendmail Config Question

[John May]

Actually, sendmail shouldn't be running as a daemon in the 
configuration I'm trying.  It isn't on my other 2 machines either. 
All I want is for it to send all mail through my external SMTP server.

	- John


>The first place I would have you look to see if you have acutally 
>started sendmail (i.e. from a terminal prompt type:
>
>ps -ax | grep sendmail
>
>you should see at least one instance of sendmail running.  Also, you 
>can telnet to port 25 if it (sendmail) is running and see the 
>sendmail prompts, i.e.
>
>telnet localhost 25
>
>Give us the results from these and then we can move forward from there.
>
>Jerry K
>
>
>
>On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 03:32  PM, John May wrote:
>
>>Still no joy =(  It's still using "relay" for the mailer instead of 
>>"esmtp"...
>>
>>Any other ideas?
>>
>>	- John
>>
>>>My sendmail knowledge is a little rusty; I've been using Postfix for a
>>>couple of years now. :)
>>>
>>>I think for your config.mc, something along the lines of
>>>
>>>OSTYPE(darwin)dnl
>>>DOMAIN(generic)dnl
>>>FEATURE(`nullclient', `mail.pointinspace.com')
>>>
>>>may do what you want.  That is, _no_ mail will be delivered locally.  When
>>>I ran sendmail, this is the config I used for my backup MX systems, and
>>>other systems where mail might be generated but never checked.
>>>
>>>Good luck.
>>>--
>>>Cloyce

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