[ale] Bellsouth Sendmail Fix

[Ryan Neily]

So you're SMART_HOST line in your sendmail.mc file reads:

define(`SMART_HOST', [mail.bellsouth.net])

???

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jeff Brodnax wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:26:49PM -0400, Ryan Neily wrote:
> >
> > If this gets posted, I've fixed the Bellsouth no-relay problem that people
> > has been complaining about.  I used some of the tips of James CE Johnson
> > which is using Postfix.  My solution is using Sendmail, but works much the
> > same...
> >
> > I added a redirect rule to my IPtables firewall script that redirects any
> > traffic coming from port 26 on the localhost interface to the bellsouth
> > SMTP server on port 25.  I used this iptables command:
> >
> > $IPTABLES -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d 127.0.0.1 --dport 26 -j DNAT
> > --to-destination 205.152.59.16:25
> >
> > and then added the following directives to my sendmail.mc, m4'd it to
> > sendmail.cf and it seems to be working:
>
> Hi I am a lurker, just wanted to share the work around I found for the
> no relaying by bellsouth.net.  I added brackets.. ie.
> [mail.bellsouth.net] to my sendmail.mc as the smart host.  I have no
> idea what this does, other than it doesn't use the mx anymore just right
> through the main smtp server.   Relaying works again.
>
> Jeff
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