Send even local mail through to external SMTP server.

[jai2001]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to linux and have been trying to figure out how to configure sendmail for the past couple of days with no success.

I want to send all mail through an external SMTP server.
I have used sendmail.mc to specify the SMART_HOST and I can send mail to my external hotmail account. The problem is when I try to send to a username on the Domain (a local user), the email justs gets delivered to /var/spool/mail/user and doesn't go through the SMART_HOST.

How can I force all mail to go through my smart host?

Thanks,

Jai

I'm using Fedora. Does anyone know

 

[mrballcb]

Remove the domain from the w class, usually that's the /etc/mail/local-host-names file. Restart sendmail.

 

[jai2001]

I checked the /etc/mail/local-host-names file and there are no domains listed.

could it be anything else?

 

[jai2001]

I found the solution and will show the .mc file I used for anyone else wanting a solution.

I created myConfig.mc and added the following lines.


dnl # configure all mail to go external
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
FEATURE(nullclient, mail.mydomain.com.au)dnl

After this i used m4 to create the sendmail.cf file like this:

# m4 myconfig.mc > sendmail.cf

I was in the /etc/mail directory when I issed the command.

After this I stoped sendmail and started it like this:

# /usr/lib/sendmail -q15m

Now all my mail goes through to mail.mydomain.com.au