[TriLUG] setting up outgoing sendmail mailserver (fwd)

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Fri Oct 3 12:30:06 EDT 2003


(it's been a while since I've messed with sendmail).

I have several machines at home NAT'ed out through a linux router to a
dial-up connection. Currently outgoing mail (from netscape), is directed
to the ISP's mailserver (mail.foo.net). I'm setup for several dialups and
it's a pain to change the outgoing mailserver on all internal machines
when I do. Instead I would like to have the internal machines use sendmail
on the router as their first hop and only have to reconfigure the one
machine when I change the dialup.

1. How do I configure sendmail on the router to accept all outgoing mail
from the local network (192.168.1.0/24) and relay it to mail.foo.net?

2. With netscape, on the first outgoing mail after dialup, I get a
login/passwd dialog authorization box and have to enter my
username/passwd. Any ideas how I would handle this if I have sendmail
relaying?

Thanks Joe

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