Depending on your needs, you might want to try using smtpd instead of sendmail. It's included in the OpenBSD base, and at least to me, seems much simpler than sendmail. The smtpd man page has instructions on how to convert from sendmail; and then the the man page for smtpd.conf has instructions on how to set things up.
To give you an idea of how much easier the configuration is than sendmail, here's my smtpd.conf:
Or, in other words: only accept mail locally, deliver local mail, and forward any non-local mail to the smarthost for delivery.
I'm using sendmail to send a attachment which works good. I send the To Cc Subject Attachment. Question is does anyone know how to put a voting botton in the script when sending the email I want the Approve;Reject button. (2 Replies)
How would I configure sendmail so that the INTERN group can only send email locally to xyz.com, while the EXTERN group can send email anywhere.
Thanks for your help! (5 Replies)
Hi All
I am trying to deal with a problem. Any suggestions would be helpful!
I have sendmail running on a Redhat 8 box and is serving about 75 e-mail accounts. Version Info:
OS:Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
sendmail-8.12.8-9.80
sendmail-cf-8.12.8-9.80
There are a few users that... (0 Replies)
I apologize for asking what I'm sure is a basic question, but I have an automated script that will send a file using sendmail to a list of e-mail accounts.
When one or more of those e-mail accounts is bad, it bounces the message back to the account that is executing the script.
How can I... (2 Replies)
hello to all,
I'm a newbie to configuring sendmail. I have a solaris 9 server that is also set up as a NIS master server. My 1st question is how do properly set up sendmail to work in conjuntion with NIS users, so I need to set up sendmail in a certain way or can I just set it up normally. Also... (5 Replies)
Hello to all,
I configured sendmail on a solaris 9 system the same as another server that the one I configured will replace. I transferred all the required files from the original system to the new one as well ar the /var/mail directory. The sendmail daemon is running however when I try to... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Quick question re sendmail and mail queues.
If the sendmail deamon is stopped i.e. set up to execute and stop at certain intervals from crontab, and the sendmail command is invoked the mail is queued in the clientmqueue directory. Then the next time sendmail is executed the mails... (2 Replies)
Yes Folks,
Quick question. Is it possible to send multiple attachments with sendmail and if so how? Thinking here in terms of sending multiple .pdf files as attachments. I can do it with one but how do I do it for multiples.
Slainte, (1 Reply)
Hello all,
On my solaris 9 I have this process running
smmsp 29138 1 0 Apr 17 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m
root 29137 1 0 Apr 17 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -q15m
if i use the command /usr/bin/mconnect
connecting to host localhost (127.0.0.1), port... (0 Replies)
I configured Solaris 10 server to send all mails to our exchange server via D{MTAHost} in submit.cf. but now I don't get internal messages like cron output.
what can I do? (2 Replies)
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aliases
aliases(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual aliases(4)NAME
aliases - Contains alias definitions for the sendmail program
SYNOPSIS
/var/adm/sendmail/aliases
DESCRIPTION
By default, the aliases file contains the required aliases for the sendmail program. Do not delete these defaults because they are needed
by the system. This file describes user ID aliases used by the sendmail command. It is formatted as a series of lines in the form: name:
name_1, name_2, name_3,..
The name is the name that needs an alias, and the name_n are the aliases for that name. Lines beginning with white space are continuation
lines. Lines beginning with a # (number sign) are comments.
You can define an alias only on local names. Duplicate addresses are removed and no message is sent to any person more than once. For
example, if name_1 defines an alias that is name_2 and name_2 defines an alias that is name_1, sendmail does not send the same message back
and forth. Local and valid recipients who have a .forward file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the list of users
defined in that file.
This is only the raw data file; the actual information that defines the aliases is placed into a binary format in the files /var/adm/send-
mail/aliases.dir and /var/adm/sendmail/aliases.pag using the newaliases command. For the change to take effect, the newaliases command
must be executed each time the aliases file is changed.
The sendmail program also supports sending messages to programs or appending a message to a file. See the sendmail(8) reference page for
further information.
Special Aliases
Directs error messages that occur when sending to aliasname back to address.
RESTRICTIONS
Aliases for sendmail use the dbm(3) database format for faster lookups. A single alias cannot exceed 1,000 characters. To work around this
restriction, you can chain together aliases. For example: alias-list: ali1, ali2, ali3 ali1: name 1, name 2 ... ali2: name n, name n + 1
FILES
Binary aliases file. Binary aliases file.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: newaliases(1), forward(4), local.users(4), sendmail(8) delim off
aliases(4)