Sendmail Question

RedWolf

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Hi Everyone,

Here's the story -
I sort of manage a UNIX (IRIX) system at work (I say sort of because I'm not really qualified in any way to manage a UNIX system but I'm all we have). Anyway one of our systems runs on this server and uses the sendmail program for it's email notifications.

Our IT department just changed the company's SMTP server on us so now our system isn't sending out email notifications. They've given me the IP of the SMTP server but for the life of me I can't figure out where to change it. I've checked the sendmail.cf file and the sendmail.mc file but neither of them make any mention of the old SMTP server (or it's IP). Should be a simple matter of just swapping an IP somewhere - but I'm going crazy trying to figure it out.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Thanks!
 
it's been a while since I had to do with sendmail, but isn't it the option D{REMOTE} and the D{HUB} in the client.cf file?
 
Here's a long shot: Is this defined in the /etc/hosts file? Or if you have DNS it is being handled by the DNS server and that needs to be updated.
Just some wild guesses.
 
Originally posted by munzy
Here's a long shot: Is this defined in the /etc/hosts file? Or if you have DNS it is being handled by the DNS server and that needs to be updated.
Just some wild guesses.

I've checked the .hosts file and I don't see OLD mail server there so I don't think thats the answer.

We've even had the IRIX tech support help us update the sendmail.cf dile to include the new SMTP server (even though the old one wasn't there).

However our mail still isn't going through - it's bouncing back and telling us that the server (the old mail server) is timing out. So for some reason it's STILL trying to send to the old server. We're missing something somewhere....
 
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