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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sendmail Fails to send emails from Linux server. Post 303003286 by drysdalk on Monday 11th of September 2017 05:17:50 PM
Old 09-11-2017
Hi,

Sorry for the delay in replying - glad you've gotten your Sendmail config generating correctly now at least. I'm afraid I can't really help you much further though, sorry. I've got no experience myself in setting up Sendmail to do what you're trying to do, as I've never had to set up a Sendmail box to do quite what you're trying to do.

From some Googling it seems it's certainly possible to get Sendmail to talk to an MSA rather than an MTA and authenticate against it using the authinfo mechanism previously discussed, but as you say you might need to get TLS and other things besides working for this to operate correctly. Perhaps others who have gone down this road and are reading this thread could advise you on how to proceed, if this is really something you absolutely have to do.

On that subject, though: again, is there a reason you have to do this, and pass the mail on to a server that is normally used for talking to mail clients and whatnot ? Why can't you just straight send this mail to its correct destination from your local server, without a relay or smart host or anything else in the way ? Or alternatively, is there not a mail server on site that already is set up to do e-mail correctly that you can just use as your smart relay, saving yourself all this trouble ?
 

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Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag(3) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag(3)

NAME
PhishTag - SpamAssassin plugin for redirecting links in incoming emails. SYNOPSIS
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag trigger_ratio 0.1 trigger_target RULE_NAME http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html DESCRIPTION
PhishTag enables administrators to rewrite links in emails that trigger certain tests, preferably anti-phishing blacklist tests. The plugin will inhibit the blocking of a portion of the emails that trigger the test by SpamAssassin, and let them pass to the users' inbox after the rewrite. It is useful in providing training to email users about company policies and general email usage. OPTIONS
The following options can be set by modifying the configuration file. o trigger_ratio percentage_value Sets the probability in percentage that a positive test will trigger the email rewrite, e.g. 0.1 will rewrite on the average 1 in 1000 emails that match the trigger. o trigger_target RULE_NAME http_url The name of the test which would trigger the email rewrite; all the URLs will be replaced by http_url. DOWNLOAD
The source of this plugin is avaliable at: http://umut.topkara.org/PhishTag/PhishTag.pm a sample configuration file is also available: http://umut.topkara.org/PhishTag/PhishTag.cf SEE ALSO
Check the list of tests performed by SpamAssassin to modify the configuration file to match your needs from http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests.html AUTHOR
Umut Topkara, 2008, <umut@topkara.org> http://umut.topkara.org COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as SpamAssassin itself, either version 3.2.4 or, at your option, any later version of SpamAssassin you may have available. perl v5.16.3 2011-06-06 Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag(3)
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