sendmail timeout

[Bruce Cran]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:49AM -0600, Karl Hammerschmidt wrote:
> Thanks for the tip!
> 
> Telnet does fail, and I found out that my ISP (earthlink) is known to block
> 25. The information I found said to put 'mail.earthlink.net' in SMART_HOST
> in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. Is that /etc/mail/freebsd.mc on a freebsd system?
> 
> I tried putting it there, but it seems to get ignored. The docs on
> sendmail.org say things like LOCAL_RELAY override SMART_HOST, but I didn't
> find anything like that in freebsd.mc.
> 
> Anybody know what I did wrong?

You need to put it in freebsd.mc or a customised version of that, then
run 'make freebsd.cf' or whatever you called the custom copy, but with a
.cf instead of .mc.  Then, copy the .cf file to sendmail.cf and restart
sendmail by running 'killall -HUP sendmail'.  

Bruce Cran