[GRLUG] Any sendmail folks out there?

Mark Farver mfarver at mindbent.org
Mon Oct 28 17:48:53 EDT 2013


What is the content of your /etc/mail/service.switch file?

What is in /etc/nsswitch.conf?

Did you rebuild sendmail.cf and restart the service?

Mark

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:46 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Mark Farver wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:29 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> > Trying to fix an old CentOS 5.5 server with sendmail, .. I rebuilt the
>> > config, but it is ignoring /etc/hosts and pulling the SMART_HOST IP from
>> > DNS.
>>
>> http://www.tenox.net/docs/force2smarthost.html
>>
>> I don't have a CentOS 5.5 system to lookup if this will actually work,
>> but it is worth a try.
>>
>> Mark
>>
> Only problem is, it does not work. If you put in a hostname for
> SMART_HOST, it pulls the DNS entry (which DNW), even if it is set in
> /etc/hosts.
>
>         Lee
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