SUMMARY: OT: Setup Sendmail to connect to a smart relay host on a port oth er than 25

From: Bradley Alan <ABradley_at_omam.com>
Date: Fri Jul 23 2004 - 06:48:32 EDT
Hi All,

The answer as supplied by Lars Hecking, below, was to edit the m4 source for
sendmail.cf and add

define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `IPC $h 697')dnl

where 697 would be replaced by the port number one wanted to use.

Regards,
Alan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Hecking [mailto:lhecking@nmrc.ie]
Sent: 23 July 2004 11:20
To: Bradley Alan
Subject: Re: OT: Setup Sendmail to connect to a smart relay host on a
port oth er than 25


Bradley Alan writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I need some help from anyone who has setup sendmail to forward mail to a
> smart relay host that is on a port other than 25.
> 
> For example in my sendmail.cf file I have the following
> 
> # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
> DSmailserver.domain.com
> 
> and I can telnet to mail.domain.com on port 25 and it connects fine, e.g.
> 
> # telnet mailserver.domain.com 25
> 
> Trying a.b.c.d...
> Connected to a.b.c.d.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 domain.com  MAILsweeper ESMTP Receiver Version 4.2.5.0 Ready
> 
> If I telnet to NEWmailserver.domain.com on port 2225 it also connects
fine,
> e.g.
> 
> # telnet NEWmailserver.domain.com 2225
> Trying b.c.d.e...
> Connected to b.c.d.e.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 NEWmailserver.domain.com SMTP; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:00:24 +0200
> 
> But If I change the "Smart" relay host line to be:
> 
> # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
> DSNEWmailserver.domain.com
> 
> It does not work - the reason I presume is because it connects by default
on
> port 25.  How do I specify the smart relay host port of 2225 in the
sendmail
> config?
> 
> Any and all assistance will be appreciated.
 
 Google is your friend:

 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031496.htm
l

 Or the bat book if you have it (Chapter 26 in my outdated copy ...)


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