[nflug] Linux MTA Question

Richard Hubbard hubbardr at adelphia.net
Sun Dec 2 07:43:42 EST 2007


Thanks for the follow up.

I'm currently in a situation where  I may need to do just what you did. 
(Have Domino, will be installing linux mail server for a relay/spam 
filter...)


justin.bennett at dynabrade.com wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Yeah that would work, however I'm not exactly sure how to do that in 
> domino. :) Eitherway I found my notes fomr the last time, what I did was:
>
> edit submit.mc under /etc/mail.
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> Change:
> "FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl"
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> To:
> "FEATURE(`msp', `my_smtp_server')dnl"
>
> then did a "make -C /etc/mail"
>
> and restarted sendmail.
>
> This makes sendmail send all outgoing mail via the smtp-server 
> directly without connecting to port 25 on the loopback interface, and 
> processing the mail it's self.
>
> This way I don't need to bind senmail to a port.
>
> Thanks
> Justin
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> Can you configure the Domino server to allow just the one domain to be 
> relayed?
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> __justin.bennett at dynabrade.com_ <mailto:justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> 
> wrote:
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> Hey everyone,
>
>        I'm having an issue and I can't remember how I got around this 
> before. I have a linux server (RH 4AS) running lotus domino, the 
> domino server binds to port 25 for incoming email. I need to be able 
> to run sendmail so that my linux logs can get delivered, however it 
> will not bind on 25 obviously.  I bound it to another port, however 
> when I try to send a mail (simple echo test | mail 
> _jbennett at dynabrade.com_ <mailto:jbennett at dynabrade.com>) It tries to 
> use the domino running on port 25 rather than the sendmail bound on 
> port 2525. The problem is the domino server accepts mail for a 
> different domain than the one where I need to send the logs to, so it 
> rejects the messages.
>
>        I've tried using a smart host option and then commenting out 
> the DAEMON options to bind to port 25, but none of it worked, it still 
> wanted to use port 25.  Any idea how I can get my local linux mail 
> (things like cron logs, backup scripts ect.) to send without having to 
> have sendmail bound to port 25?
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> I think I did something so that all mail from the system was sent 
> another smtp server and not using the local sendmail.
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> Thanks
> Justin
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