-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/30/2015 9:32 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I set my sendmail.mc file to have a SMART_HOST entry of > mail.xyz.com I do "make" and "service sendmail restart" ... I > should be good, but no. :) > however when I do a test mail - its trying to RELAY to another > host. > > I thought SMART_HOST was the only one it would try to relay to? > yes there is only one SMART_HOST in my file, and sendmail.cf shows > the correct name. By which you mean that sendmail.cf contains the line: DSrelay:mail.xyz.com ? SMART_HOST will relay mail to destinations for which it doesn't have explicit routing information. Do you also have a mailertable defined which might include the recipient domain, for example? > How do I tell what is happening here? the maillog only shows it > trying to relay to the wrong host, not the one I entered. Try "sendmail -d60.5 -bv [user at example.com]" to see what might be going on with local address parsing. - -- Nels Lindquist <nlindq at maei.ca> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlYMFeEACgkQh6z5POoOLgTeegCglJFDPQCCtFk+1IAKxOJeigy4 KLsAn1tm16i4237h19afL5fs1QpG2MH6 =uBqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----