Sendmail OSX part 2

get sendmail to work with AppleMailServer

h2. get sendmail to work with AppleMailServer

Option 1 : get sendmail to work with AppleMailServer

OSX Server only. Not the recommended option.

Because we no longer run AppleMailServer at any of our customers’ sites I cannot guarantee success with this method under 10.1.5. It definitely worked with 10.1.4 though.

What we are trying to do here is get sendmail to pass any local messages to the AppleMailServer for local delivery. These messages are forwarded via SMTP on port 627. It is important if you use this approach that port 627 is blocked at your firewall to prevent others exploiting holes (such as the open relay bug) in AppleMailServer.

Create /etc/mail/mailertable. This file tells sendmail to deliver certain domains to a special mailer called "ams".

localhost ams:localhost
domain.com.au ams:localhost

Create /usr/share/sendmail/conf/mailer/AppleMailServer.m4. Here we define the mailer called "ams". This is the part that took me the longest to get right. I am by no means a sendmail expert, so please let me know if you have improvements to be made here. Make sure you don’t get too many line breaks in there, or just download it.

#########################################
	

		
AppleMailServer specification ###
#########################################


	
ifdef(`_ARG_’,`define(`AMS_PORT’,ARG)’)dnl

ifdef(`AMS_PORT’,,`define(`AMS_PORT’,627)’)dnl

	
VERSIONID

Mams, P=[IPC], F=SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS">CONCAT, S=11/31, R=ifdef(`_ALL_MASQUERADE_’, `21/31’, `21’), E=\r\n,

L=2040,_OPTINS(`RELAY_MAILER_CHARSET’, `C=’, `,’)T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=IPC $h AMS_PORT

	

OK. Now we can create the configuration file and we are all done. Be careful here with line breaks. Each line begins with a command like "define" or "feature", even though your browser may have wrapped text differently.

Create /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

###
	

		
This basic sendmail.mc file provides basic sendmail service
		
which is still a vast improvement over the built-in Apple
		
Mail Server.
	
#

	

		
After any change made here, execute this:
		
cd /usr/share/sendmail/conf/m4
		
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
###


	
include(`/usr/share/sendmail/conf/m4/cf.m4’)

	
VERSIONID

OSTYPE

DOMAIN

define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH’,`/usr/bin/procmail’)

define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST’,true)

define(`_USE_ETC_MAIL_’,true)

define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG’,”$j ; $b”)

define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN’,15)

define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS’,``noexpn,authwarnings,novrfy,goaway’‘)

	
FEATURE

FEATURE

define(`confCW_FILE’, `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names’)

	

		
deliver all messages through AppleMailServer relay

FEATURE
	

	
FEATURE

FEATURE

	
FEATURE

	
FEATURE

FEATURE

	

		
relay addresses without a domain (eg. admin) to AppleMailServer

define(`LOCAL_RELAY’, `ams:localhost’)
		
relay addresses with a domain (eg. admin@domain.com.au) to AppleMailServer
	

	
define(`MAIL_HUB’, `ams:localhost’)

	
MAILER

MAILER

MAILER

	

Now go into the Server Admin tool, select "configure mail server…" and select "sendmail" in the popup next to SMTP. Save the preferences. This will write some configuration into the sendmail.cf file, which doesn’t seem to work. Later on we rebuild that file anyway, so don’t worry about it.

Now move on to the “final step”:node/131.