[NBLUG/talk] Configuring sendmail to forward email via sonic.net

[E Frank Ball III]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 09:54:10AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
 > For many years I have avoided sendmail on my Centos 5 since my PHP
 > class does the job, however I now need to have it work since my
 > client is using Concrete5 (CMS) and it is hard wired to use
 > sendmail.

You can use postfix, it has a "sendmail" binary to be compatible.


 > Sonic uses a prot different from the standard of 25, plus sendmail
 > has properties well over my head.  Has anyone on this group
 > configured sendmail to forward through Sonic?


I used to send thru sonic.net with postfix.  It was easy but I don't
remember the details, I'm not a sonic customer anymore.
It appears I still have the config in my /etc/postfix/main.cf, just
commented out:

relayhost = mail.sonic.net:587

If your on their network, and have a valid "From:" address that's all
you used to need.  They have pretty good info on their website if you
rummage around.


   E Frank Ball          frankb at frankb.us