On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Dogsbody wrote:
>
>>>> I am interested in relaying outbound mail through an account at
>>>> my ISP, since I'm running this from home and the IP is listed as
>>>> in the dynamic pool.
>>>
>>> Just add your ISP mail server under Network Services, Email,
>>> Advanced, Smart Relay Server and your all done :-)
OK, I've been getting more comfortable with mixing my shell work with
the BQ interface. At least, nothing has broken yet and I've
installed a few rpms and even compiled a few things :)
So, as Dan wrote, there is a provision for using a smart relay
server, just no user/pass in the GUI.
As he said way back when, I should be able to set up the smart relay
server part in the GUI, save it, and thus sendmail.cf will be rebuilt
to do the needed things such as for relaying and maybe masquerading.
From this point I should be able to edit sendmail.mc, set up
masquerading if that isn't done already by the smart relay GUI, add
my login information to the /etc/mail/access, rebuild with m4 to make
the hash of the password info so that isn't sitting around in clear
text, and I'm good to go. (?) At least until some update or my
editing the relay host setting in the GUI forces m4 to rebuilt
sendmail.mc again.
I'm not totally new to the underpinnings but perhaps I'm excessively
paranoid about breaking the BQ side, since getting that back together
might be a pain!
There are more details about this type of change to sendmail,
including some good additions that lock things down a little that
might be useful to add to sendmail.cf anyway, if they aren't already
present, at <http://www.pettingers.org/code/sendmail-mods3.html>
Thoughts? Mostly I'm looking for those who know what BQ takes care
of to let me know if this approach won't stick long enough to be
useful. The changes themselves are pretty straightforward.
Thanks,
Brian