Sendmail configuration - Forwarding to non-local domain

[Michael Ernstoff]

I have upgraded sendmail on an HP-UX 11.11 server from version 8.9.3.1 to version 8.13.3

Before there was just one cf file (sendmail.cf) and now there are two cf files (sendmail.cf and submit.cf).
I have a "smart" smtp server which I want to use for all mail sent to non-local addresses except for a specified list of domains.

At the moment all mail sent to non-local domains is going to the smart smtp server, including those in the specified domains.
I have set up /etc/mail/mailertable with the specified domains.

How do I configure sendmail, so that mail to the specified domains will be sent direct?

Thanks in advance, points will be given.

[Arunvijai_4]

http://sunportal.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2001-December/000467.html
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html

-Arun

[Michael Ernstoff]

As someone who has never set up sendmail before I find the documentation (and the O'Reilly book) very difficult to understand.

How do I set up sendmail (8.13.3 on HP-UX 11i) so that:-

mail to a.com and b.com get forwarded to csmtp.com
and
mail to x.com and y.com get forwarded to zsmtp.com?

Should csmtp.com and zsmtp.com be in /etc/mail/relay-domains?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Michael,

You are probably on the right track.

With sendmail there are numerous ways to get certain tasks done.

You might be able to set up masquerades in an sendmail macro file.

The best resource for this is probably the http://www.sendmail.org website. It includes expamples that you can cut and paste to deal with many situations.

What you are trying to do is on the complex side.

The receiving domains are going to have to explicity authorize relay based on your public Internet IP address.

Let me know if you need help navigating the sendmail website, I may have time later to come up with some specific pages that apply to your question. I'm posting now for two reasons:
1) I don't want you to wait for me to have time.
2) I'm waiting for lunch and don't want to start a complicated search right now.

Good Luck.

SEO

[Michael Ernstoff]

Steven,
Thanks for your quick response.
In my example, csmtp.com is internal to the group of companies that I am working for and manages mail for the group.
zsmtp.com is a vendor for the application running on this server.
There should not be a problem with them receiving mail from my server.

I don't find sendmail.org easy to use. It feels like you need a sendmail training course before you could understand enough to use it.

I don't think that I want to use masquerading.

I set up the relay-domains file, but looking at the mail.log file, mails are not getting routed to these servers and I do not understand why.

[Michael Ernstoff]

Just realised that the command I was using to create the mailertable mapfile was creating a db file, where sendmail is using dbm type. Both db and dbm were there, and so sendmail was reading the old unamended file. It was only when I deleted the old one, that I got messages in the log stating that the map file was missing.
Test server seems to be working OK now.

[Ivan Ferreira]

I think that the easy way is to use sendmail.mc macro file and configure:

FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl