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Using a smart host in OpenBSD’s sendmail

Here are some quick notes of configuring sendmail(8) to transfer mail
to your ISP’s smart host on a standard OpenBSD Installation. Tested with
OpenBSD 4.7/i386 and 4.8/i386

First, make a copy of the default configuration. Here ‘mysettings’ is something you can name anything you’d like.

# cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf
# cp openbsd-localhost.mc mysettings.mc

Define smarthost by adding this line in mysettings.mc replacing ‘smtp.myisp.com’ with the smtp server of your ISP.

define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.myisp.com')dnl

Generate a .cf file from the .mc configuration with m4 and move it to /etc/mail/

# pwd
/usr/share/sendmail/cf
# m4 ../m4/cf.m4 mysettings.mc > mysettings.cf
# mv mysettings.cf /etc/mail/

Add this line to /etc/rc.conf.local to override the default flags in /etc/rc.conf

sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/mysettings.cf -bd -q30m"

Instructions shamelessly stolen from a post by Diana Eichert on the misc mailing list at OpenBSD.

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