email woes.

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 21:36 -0700, Ray Cantwell wrote:
> Hello all,
> Not sure if this is an OS specific issue or not, i am trying to get pine 
> to work with cox mail and not having much luck, i get an smtp 
> authentication not available error, so i was trying to get sendmail 
> configured to use and my transport and not really were sure to start. I 
> have both an OpenBSD and Slack 11 boxes.
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edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')dnl

s/b

define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.west.cox.net')dnl

then...

# make -C /etc/mail

restart sendmail

mail will be sent out via 'smart host'

Craig