E-mail - clients & transporters

[Raul A. Gallegos]

On a late note here.  The actual line you add to the sendmail.cf so that smarthost is used is Ds  So if I need to use smtp.isp.net as my smarthost the line 
would read:

Dssmtp.isp.net

There you have it.


On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:32:55 +1000 (EST), Geoff Shang wrote:

>Hi:
>
>The disadvantage of using pine to send and receive mail directly to and
>from your ISP is that you need to be online to do stuff.  You may as well
>telnet or SSH into their host and use pine there.  If you set up your own
>SMTP server properly, you can do neat stuff like read and write mail while
>offline (like I am doing now), and have linux send your mail off when you
>next log into your ISP.
>
>MTA's are complex due to all the stuff they can and should be able to do,
>which is why worked examples are a good way to start with these things.  I
>use exim so I can't help with sendmail.  However, I doubt that you need to
>actually edit source code to configure sendmail to send to a smarthost.



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