how to enable sendmail to use smtp?

brent_weaver

I just did it at my job on an AIX server. How do I enable it in gentoo? Cannot be that hard, I assume that I edit a conf file???!!!

Any help is appreciated!
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Brent Weaver

indynet · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:24 am Post subject:

You will need edit the sendmail.cf file that is located in the section that begins with DS and edit as follows:

DShost.domain.com

with the 'host.domain.com' being the fully qualified host name of the mail server that you will be "relaying" mail messages to.

refresh -s sendmail

radagast · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:48 am Post subject:

or, if you need less features than sendmail, try ssmtp
from the "tips & tricks" forum (the man page isn't that useful):
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-420358-highlight-ssmtp+smtp.html

thanks for asking, i've been wondering the same thing for a few months and your question prompted me to do the research.