[ale] Sendmail and Bellsouth

[Jim]

Here's a stupid question.  Is sendmail installed?  The fact you've got 
some postfix files might suggest postfix was installed instead of sendmail.


Jim.
Paul Cartwright wrote:

>On Sun February 19 2006 5:52 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>  
>
>>If all you want to do is send email, from your host inside the
>>BellSouth network, then all you need to do is setup sendmail to use
>>mail.bellsouth.net as a SMART_HOST in your sendmail.mc like this:
>>     define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.bellsouth.net')
>>    
>>
>
>I am running SUSE 10.0 and I couldn't find a sendmail.XX anywhere on my 
>system. I did find /etc/postfix/main.cf with lots of entries for 
>domains and hosts...
>
>and I found this ( although it is for SUSE 8.0):
>http://www.linux-faqs.com/faq/sendmail/faq/section5.php#5.3.2.1
>5.3.2.1 -- Where is the sendmail.mc file on SuSE Linux?
>Date: May 5, 2002
>
>On SuSE Linux systems there is no real sendmail.mc file. This file is 
>generated 'on the fly' by SuSEconfig using several variables 
>in /etc/rc.config and /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail.rc.config (SuSE <= 
>7.3) or /etc/sysconfig/sendmail (SuSE >= 8.0).
>
>SuSEconfig executes the script /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.sendmail to a) 
>build a temorary .mc file b) execute m4 to generate /etc/sendmail.cf 
>and c) delete the temporary .mc file afterwards. 
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>