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Paul Baker <newsjuly@levante.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>>  Try 'DSsmtp:exchangeserver' and all should be well. 
>
>Not convinced it was :(
>
>Can that be an IP address? (It isn't ATM & as I said, the DNS is flaky.)
>There are likely to be references in sendmail.cf to MX records, aren't
>there?  Can I remove these?  All I want to achieve is to send one email
>per day relayed by the exch server!

I believe so.  It should be able to take an IP address and it shouldn't look
up MXs for the smarthost, as smarthost set-ups are often on the inside of a
firewall where 'real' DNS isn't available.  In answer to the second part,
if you've got a smarthost defined ('DS' definition), it should just use
that and ignore the usual MX resolution steps.  (There's a fallback host
option, to be used as a smart-host when MX resolution fails, but that's
a separate sendmail.cf option).

All subject to the usualy vagueries of differing sendmail.cfs, but that's
my understanding of 'normal' operation.

>
>
>....alternatively could my cron job call a Perl script that uses
>Mail::Mailer (or does this use sendmail as well?)

Pass.  I'd imagine it talks SMTP to either localhost or a defined smarthost,
so you mail be able to use it with appropriate invocation.

Regards,
Tim.