Hi Everyone,

I'm having trouble with one of our providers for scanning e-mail for
spam and viruses etc. E-mails from one of our live servers are sent
through them and there are currently delays occuring in e-mail delivery
which I need to prevent. To do so, I'd like to configure Sendmail to
use our internal SMTP mail server.

Can anyone tell me how I can bypass Sendmail's configuration and tell
it to use a specific SMTP server?

Thanks in advance,

Bob

Hi Everyone,

Looking at my original post, I should probably try to clarify exactly
what it is that I'm trying to do.

We have a live server outside of our network which is using sendmail to
send e-mail from an application that we have running. We are
experiencing delays with e-mail that is sent to addresses inside our
domain because this e-mail first passes through our scanning provider
using details obtained from our domains MX records.

What I would like to do is get sendmail to send any e-mail bound for
our domain straight to a specified SMTP server, instead of using the
standard MTA as defined by the MX records.

Currently, there is no DNS server on this box and we'd like to solve
this problem without having to install one.

I hope this s,

Thanks,

Bob

Bob wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm having trouble with one of our providers for scanning e-mail for
> spam and viruses etc. E-mails from one of our live servers are sent
> through them and there are currently delays occuring in e-mail delivery
> which I need to prevent. To do so, I'd like to configure Sendmail to
> use our internal SMTP mail server.
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can bypass Sendmail's configuration and tell
> it to use a specific SMTP server?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob

Bob wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Looking at my original post, I should probably try to clarify exactly
> what it is that I'm trying to do.
>
> We have a live server outside of our network which is using sendmail to
> send e-mail from an application that we have running. We are
> experiencing delays with e-mail that is sent to addresses inside our
> domain because this e-mail first passes through our scanning provider
> using details obtained from our domains MX records.
>
> What I would like to do is get sendmail to send any e-mail bound for
> our domain straight to a specified SMTP server, instead of using the
> standard MTA as defined by the MX records.
>
> Currently, there is no DNS server on this box and we'd like to solve
> this problem without having to install one.

You can use mailertable to direct traffic for a domain to a specific server.

cheers

Erich