[ale] Sendmail and Bellsouth

[Thomas Stromberg]

On 20 feb 2006, at 07.10, Thomas Stromberg wrote:

>
> On 20 feb 2006, at 06.58, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
>> do I need to install sendmail, OR can I tell postfix to do this by
>> some
>> other variable in the main.cf file?
>
> Open /etc/postfix/main.cf in your favorite editor and look for
> "relayhost". Uncomment the line and change to:
>
> relayhost = mail.bellsouth.net
>
> Note: The path to main.cf may be different depending on the
> distribution, but that's at least where it is on many of them.

I suppose I neglected to mention that you will need to tell postfix  
to reload it's configuration files after editing main.cf. Simply type:

  postfix reload

Should that fail (!?!), you can try "/etc/init.d/postfix reload", or  
using stop/start instead.

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