Sherine wrote:
> I'm going to try all that was suggested, but just to give you some more
> insight.....
>
> The Firewall/Proxy is TIS FWTK on RH 5.0.....The mail server is on the
> inside of the Firewall i.e on The LAN..............It uses private ip
> address......therefore the only way of knowing the ISP's mail host is if
> it forwards all mail that is destined externally to the Firewall/Proxy
> which should then send them out right?
>
> Presently, hip hip horay.....I can send mail from the Firewall/Proxy
> outside of the domain......and it reaches external mail hosts......
>
> The present problem though is that my mail server on the LAN doesn't know
> how to forward mail destined for outside the domain to the Firewall/Proxy
> the error returned was "Transient parse error"....
If the firewall is running an MTA, you should just need to specify it
in the DS line in sendmail.cf on the mail server.
> I need to know though, does the Mail server on the LAN with a private ip
> address needs to know any ISP's ip addresss? for example the DNS since we
> use their DNS...
If the mail server doesn't have access to a DNS server, you will need
to make some changes to sendmail.cf (e.g. to prevent it attempting to
canonify the domain part of email addresses).
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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