Reply-To: Hi Recently I posted about smail being able to deliver mail via smtp to remote domains but not to users on my own domain unless they existed on the box smail was running on. Basically I wanted mail for these users to be delivered to the company mail server.
Several people have offered solutions using smartuser or smartrelay but for once I have come up with a simple solution myself so incase anyone else has the same problem here it is. In /etc/smail/config as setup by debian there is a line like this hostnames=hostname.domain:domain eg hostname=workstation1.somecompany.com:somecompany.com change it to hostname=hostname.domain.com eg hostname=workstation1.somecompany.com Now it should work properly and hand off all mail for users not on workstation1 to whatever dns turns up as an mx record dor the domain. If anyone has any comments about any negative effects of this solution please mail me. Also I really think that this problem should be in a Debian FAQ (not necesarly with my solution - I am no mail expert) as it is a really common config. The solution using sendmail is in the sendmail FAQ and RedHats installation manual but its been a pain to sort with Smail as there seems to be very little documentation for Smail (possibly I just haven't found it yet) Pat
