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How To: Have qmail send to an external smtp server

11th January 2006 - By Aaron

So you have qmail, but you want it to send your message from your isp’s smtp server instead of your own. Well it’s actually pretty simple…

First SSH to your server and create a file called /var/qmail/control/smtproutes.

Edit it to look like this

/var/qmail/control/smtproutes
:smtp.myisp.com

Restart qmail for good measure with /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail reload

You’re done!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 at 5:08 pm and is filed under Computers, Server Management. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “How To: Have qmail send to an external smtp server”

  1. Shaun Adams Says:
    April 28th, 2006 at 8:23 am

    Thank you sooo much! I have been looking ALL over for this solution!

  2. Matt Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 6:15 pm

    Thankyou Stucco, this solved our problem of getting too many bounce messages with ‘we don’t accept mail from this SMTP’.

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