Re: OT: Yahoo and spam-blacklisting

From: ynotssor (ynotssor_at_example.net)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:51:43 -0700

"Captain Dondo" <yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote in message
news:11h709njira6g35@corp.supernews.com...

> I'll look into changing sendmail to use my ISP's mail servers...
>
> Silly gyrations I have to go through.

Blame it on the spammers who ruined a good thing for everybody.

In your sendmail.mc file, above the mailer() statements:

 define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')dnl

Rebuild the sendmail.cf, restart sendmail and you're done.

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