[Gllug] sendmail smtp.

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 28 20:26:59 UTC 2001


On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 15:34, Murray Peterson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Does anybody know how to get sendmail to talk smtp directly to a named
> host when sending some text?  The problem that I have is that I am trying
> to mail some text from an old SCO box with sendmail (8.8.5c) that was
> originally setup for UUCP.  And I am loathe to play with the sendmail
> configuration.
> 
> I have tried using sendmail -oV and -ow <recipient> from the command line,
> but without luck.
> Any ideas?

You can't do it from the command line. In the cf file, you can set a
smart host, and make sendmail forward all mail to that, but that's the
only way you can do it really. You could try the percentage hack in the
mail address.

Mike.


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