RE: Sendmail Help

["Cowles, Steve" <steve stevecowles com>]

Anish Mathew wrote:
> Hi,
> I want  to run sendmail as a client mail server.Is it possible to do
> so.. 
> 
> The reason why i want to do this is we dont have a
> public ip .. and for security reasons only one mail
> server is allowed in each state, ours is a district centre.
> 
> Well i tried these things
> I edited the sendmail.mc file to add
> 
> define('SMART_HOST','mail.myserver')
> 
> after that i can send mail from my local system.
> 
> is it the right way to do it.. anybody pls explain the
> what's actually happening when a mail server is
> started.. how it actually works .

Yes, this is the proper way to do it (as you state).

The smart_host option configures sendmail to send (relay) all outbound
e-mail (actually all non-local e-mail) to the defined mail server instead of
sendmail trying to deliver the e-mail itself using DNS/MX records. 

> 
> well on more question...
> 
> i want to pull the mails received at my main mail
> server to the client mail server also i want to do
> this automatically.. is it possible? dose sendmail can handle this..?
> 

Yes, have a look at fetchmail. (man fetchmail)

To automate this process, configure a cronjob. (man 5 crontab)


Steve Cowles