email woes.

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 21:53 -0700, Ray Cantwell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > 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.
> >>     
> > ----
> >
> > 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
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> >   
> this may seem goofy but, neither of my systems has the sendmail.mc file? 
> maybe i am crazy.
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On the Red Hat systems, you would have to install the 'sendmail-cf' and
the m4 package for generating a sendmail.cf file from the sendmail.mc

This I found intensely more favorable than trying to learn how to edit
sendmail.cf files directly.

My guess is that you would need something similar on slackware/OpenBSD
boxes.

Myself, I stopped using sendmail a few years ago and went postfix

Craig