[OpenIndiana-discuss] sendmail simple setup home lan

[Discussion list for OpenIndiana]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 01:08:59PM -0400, Discussion list for OpenIndiana wrote:
> Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> writes:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 05:41:44PM +0200, Discussion list for OpenIndiana wrote:
> >> Le 2014/05/21 17:26 +0200, Discussion List For Openindiana a écrit:
> >> >The goal is to send any outgoing mail to another host on my home lan
> >> >that relays it on.  The lan host requires no auth and accepts mail
> >> >from my lan.
> >> 
> >> Easy. In a sendmail way of things.
> >
> > I've done it in a simpler way, running the submission agent only
> > on the internal hosts.  Instead of relaying all e-mail to another
> > sendmail running on the same internal host, they relayed it to the
> > central sendmail server.  It knows how to send it on to Internet
> > destinations.  Here's my submit.mc:
> 
> I read that your way was possible, and it is described in oracle docs
> and elsewhere... but the way its written, it sounded to me that using
> submit.cf only... forfeited any ability to send mail locally.

Local delivery only takes place on the central server, if that's what
you mean.  It's a benefit to have all the messages in one place.

> Apparently that is not true eh?... But, is sendmail.cf just ignored
> then or do you remove it or something?

It's ignored.  You disable svc:/network/smtp:sendmail and enable
svc:/network/sendmail-client:default .

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