[CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

Tue Jul 1 13:47:54 UTC 2008
Steve Huff <shuff at vecna.org>

On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote:

> It appears that our firewall is not allowing connection to outside  
> MX hosts.  I think I need to configure sendmail to forward emails to  
> our local smtp host, but I am not sure how to do that.


1. make sure /etc/mail/sendmail.mc includes the following line:

define(`SMART_HOST', `your.local.smtp.host')dnl

as well as whatever other configuration is necessary for your site.

2. cd /etc/mail; make sendmail.cf; service sendmail restart

-steve

p.s. it is easier to configure Postfix to do this; the instructions  
are provided in the comments of /etc/postfix/main.cf.

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