Re: [hylafax-users] No sending Fax-to-Mail

[Michael Brown <knightmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most ISP require a login first, so a direct relay may or may not work. A simple test would be to setup a mail client to send mail through your ISP with no username or password first as a test. If that works, then yeah, it's a simply as doing a relay setup in Postfix (or Sendmail, etc). If it doesn't, then you'll have to configure your SMTP to use a login first of the username/password.

Either way, it should be possible.

Thanks,
Michael

Bryan Roberts wrote:

In postfix, the parameter is called relayhost, but I am not as familiar with sendmail.

>From a quick google search:

If your unix host has to use a mail relay to get out, the simplest, usually enough, method is to define the DS (smart relay) macro in sendmail.cf. You should have a line with
DS
change it in
DSmailrelay.domain
where mailrelay.domain is the FQDN of your mail relay as seen from your side.
The stop/start sendmail to let it reread the config file.

The mail relay that this refers to is the SMTP server at your ISP.  This will force sendmail to send ALL outbound external email through your ISP's SMTP server.  Hope this helps.

-Bryan

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