configure fowarder host for sendmail

From: Trevor Osatchuk <Trevor.Osatchuk_at_pscl.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:50:43 -0700

I have a Tru64 4.0f system that I want to keep away from the internet.
However, I want some email messages from that server to be sent to an
internet mail account. I do not want to send the mail directly to my isp,
but want to foward mail to a personal mail server on a Win2000 box and have
it send it to the big bad www. This will, of course, be a one way trip. We
have tested this with Windoze clients and it works, so I know that end is
working. From Essential System Administration the DF parameter in the
sendmail.cf file is the host where mail that the sever can't handle is sent.
I cannot find any reference to forwarder in the sendmail man page, or any
reference to 'forwarder'. Am I barking up the wrong tree?

To be clear, I do not want to forward some mail that I am receiving to
another account, but want to generate messages and have them sent out past
the firewall from a Win2000 mail server. I do not believe that .forward
will accomplish this.

I have not updated the version of sendmail, and would rather not unless
absolutely necessary.

A possible caveat: Sendmail is running on a box that is using our dns, which
means it can get ip address for hosts on the web, but it doesn't have a
route so I cannot communicate. Could this be a problem?

I origianally posted this to the comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup but have not
received any responses.

Thanks!

Trevor Osatchuk
Process Solutions Canada Ltd.
Support and Integration Analyst
(780) 452-2227 Ext. 286
trevor.osatchuk_at_pscl.com

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
          - J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein


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