RE: Sendmail relay configuration - RHEL 3.0

["Collins, Kevin [MindWorks]" <KCollins chevrontexaco com>]

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To clarify: sendmail looks for a host called 'mailhost' by default, I believe. By defining that host in your name resolution system (DNS, NIS, etc) to be your smart relay host, things "just work".

 

However, I don't see how it can be any more "scalable" that making a minor change to sendmail.mc? In addition, it makes it much more obvious for someone looking at your system to be aware of how things are working...

 

Kevin

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From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Michael Andrewjeski
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:55 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: RE: Sendmail relay configuration - RHEL 3.0

What we've done is to set a DNS entries for our mail relays as mailhost in our internal zones, we never touch the cf files at all.

 

Does this help?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Siegal [mailto:jbs quiotix com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:47 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Sendmail relay configuration - RHEL 3.0

On Apr 20, 2005, at 09:29, Michael Andrewjeski wrote:

Actually that isn't a scalable solution. Better to define mailhost in your DNS space. Sendmail will use it and you won't be editing cf files everywhere.

Can you please be more specific. I'm not familiar with that feature and it sounds useful.