[OpenIndiana-discuss] sendmail single user host sending to internet thru Smarthost: examples

[Harry Putnam]

Hugh McIntyre <lists at mcintyreweb.com> writes:

> Harry,
>
> It looks like you've asked about sendmail several times before.  Did
> you previously have a working config, but changing to Comcast broke
> things? Or changing to a new domain name for email, etc.?

Kind of a long story there.  I did try to get sendmail working but
never did make the grade.  Finally turned to linux where I am more
comfortable and knowledgeable (in some small way).

So I just gave up on it.   Got it working fairly quickly in a linux
vbox vm.

I got the notion over time and experience with running vms that in
some ways having my mail reliant on a vm running on my openindiana
host meant having 2 hosts to worry about so far as my local mail is
concerned.

So decided to put in some time retrying a sendmail setup on
openindiana.

> In terms of sendmail, I personally switched to postfix a few years ago
> so I can't provide a working config.  Jonathan's pointer below is
> probably good although I used to use a much smaller list of settings.

After hitting some of the usual hurdles with sendmail and at least one
I'm drawing a blank on.  I haven't even got the submission part to work
yet, let alone the relaying to smarthost.  Something I've managed on
linux hosts a few times.

Rather than sink more time in configuring sendmail on openindiana;
I think I will follow your example and move to postfix, which I have
also setup a couple of times on linux.

I have to get some other work done now but when I come back to it, if
I manage to get postfix going ... then I will move local mail to
openindiana host.


> But I would make two comments:

[...] 

Thank you for those, and other insights and clues.