[lug] sendmail hell

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:13:26PM -0600, proterin at home.com wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:06:28AM -0500, John Karns wrote:
>> and qmail is not an option as it requires DNS and I don't feel a
>> need to run it as yet.
>
>While qmail does do DNS lookups, it will happily use the one you use
>when you're dialed in.  There's no need to run DNS locally.

FYI: If you just want to relay all outgoing mail to your ISP's mail
server to handle, you can set it's IP address up in the "smtproutes"
control file as a wild-card and qmail won't do any DNS lookups on sends.

Sean
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