From: lists-centos Sent: April 9, 2008 20:29
you could use the sendmail "smarthost" setting to dump all your outbound mail on your isp's mail server.
We used to do that on our old SCO OSR5 box but I stopped doing that when I switched over to the new CentOS4 system. For the life of me I can not recall why but I must have had a reason. I will check that out as an alternative.
you don't explain what the problem is, e.g., inability to connect to their server, etc.
The connection to the client's mail server times out.
of course the real solution is to resolve the underlying problem since of course the isp's kludge will break now and then.
Too true. Eventually we will be moving the whole shebang to a co-lo facility so that will probably avoid the problem as well (a little overkill but it should work).
Thanks, Hugh