Friday, October 2, 2009

Episode 10: Sendmail server to forward mail to an internal backup mail server?

In order to do this you must define two options in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file:




define(`MAIL_HUB', `hostname')
FEATURE(`stickyhost')


In the above options, "hostname" is the hostname of the backup mail server. After you have added those options, you need to execute the commands:




make -C /etc/mail
service sendmail restart



These commands will rebuild the Sendmail macro configuration file for m4 and then restart the Sendmail service, respectively.


Note: This configuration should also work if the internal backup server is a Microsoft Exchange mail server

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