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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sendmail Fails to send emails from Linux server. Post 303003090 by drysdalk on Thursday 7th of September 2017 12:42:41 PM
Old 09-07-2017
Hi,

Hmm, I'm afraid I'm not really sure why you're having this problem of your config not building correctly. At least we can be sure your Sendmail isn't masquerading as zoho.com or anything like that, so all it should need (all other things being equal, anyway) is the smart relay actually getting set.

Now, I wouldn't normally recommend this these days, but it is possible to edit the sendmail.cf file directly. This is usually a bad idea for two reasons: firstly because it's a lot easier to get things very badly wrong, and secondly because it puts the config out-of-sync with the macro, but that already seems to be broken anyway for some reason.

So, you could always try changing the DS line in your sendmail.cf so that it read:

Code:
DSsmtp.zoho.com

and then re-start Sendmail and see if it works. There should be no way at all that Sendmail can ignore your smart relay then.

Again, normally this is about as far from recommended procedure as it's possible to get, but since your Sendmail macro is somehow already broken anyway, you don't have much else to lose at this point by hand-hacking your sendmail.cf.

Oh, and one important thing: if you're going to do this, back up your sendmail.cf first !
 

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Sendmail::Milter(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Sendmail::Milter(3pm)

NAME
Sendmail::Milter - compatibility interface for Sendmail::PMilter SYNOPSIS
use Sendmail::Milter; Sendmail::Milter::auto_setconn(NAME); Sendmail::Milter::register(NAME, { CALLBACKS }, FLAGS); Sendmail::Milter::main(); DESCRIPTION
This is a compatibility interface which emulates the "standard" Sendmail::Milter API. FUNCTIONS
The following functions are available in this module. Unlike "Sendmail::PMilter", this interface involves a single, global instance of milter data, so these functions are called without an object reference. For each function, see the description of its object-based counterpart in Sendmail::PMilter. Sendmail::Milter::auto_getconn(NAME[, CONFIG]) Sendmail::Milter::auto_setconn(NAME[, CONFIG]) Sendmail::Milter::main([MAXCHILDREN[, MAXREQ]]) Sendmail::Milter::register(NAME, CALLBACKS[, FLAGS]) Sendmail::Milter::setconn(DESC) One extension function is provided by this implementation. Sendmail::Milter::get_milter() Returns the "Sendmail::PMilter" instance underlying this emulation layer. This allows mostly-unmodified milter scripts to set PMilter extensions (such as dispatcher and sendmail.cf values). It is recommended, however, that new code use the object instance methods described in Sendmail::PMilter. EXPORTS
In order to preserve compatibility with the standard "Sendmail::Milter" interface, all SMFI* constants described in Sendmail::PMilter are exported into the caller's namespace by default. (Note that "Sendmail::PMilter" itself does not export these symbols by default.) perl v5.10.1 2011-02-12 Sendmail::Milter(3pm)
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