Ok definetly working now. It would be good to tweak the config a  
little more but it's accepting incoming and dealing with outgoing  
mail properly so I'm happy.

thanks for all the help to everyone to replied.




On 29 Nov 2007, at 23:50, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:20:34AM +0000, Khalid Schofield wrote:
>> ok it's still not working. I'm posting my configs here. It's not
>> accepting incoming mail. Sendmail is set to use /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>> in rc.conf
>
> Incoming mail from the network? That's because of all the 127.0.0.1
> and ::1 in you DAEMON_OPTION lines. You might use sendmail.cf, but
> you started your new .mc file by using
> /usr/share/sendmail/cf/openbsd-localhost.mc instead of openbsd- 
> proto.mc.
>
>>
>> Here is the .mc script I built the config from in /usr/share/ 
>> sendmail/
>> cf/
> ...
>> define(`SMART_HOST','oxmail.ox.ac.uk')dnl
> ...
>> # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
>> DS'oxmail.ox.ac.uk'
>
>
> You did not quote correclty. m4 is weird like that. Quoted text for
> m4 start with a backward single quote "`" and ends with a forward
> single quote "'".
>
> Either quote correctly, or remove those you put around  
> "oxmail.ox.ac.uk".
>
> I think it's the "'" on the .cf DS line that cause the smart host
> feature to fail.
>
>
> Also, just to say, the default OpenBSD supports smart host via the
> mailertable when using sendmail.cf (running sendmail without
> -C/etc/mail/localhost.cf flag).
>
> This in mailertable (+recompile of the hash db):
> .	relay:[oxmail.ox.ac.uk.]
>
> Works the same as SMART_HOST.
>
> -- 
> Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@EINTR.net>
> http://EINTR.net/