Basically, I wanted sendmail to take all inbound email and immediately relay it to another host. In my situation it makes sense because my servers have no direct access to the outside world (security thing). But in reality with the complexities involved in sending email these days, why bother setting up every host or every NAT to be capable of dependably delivering email.

So the solution is, setup one host that you know is a good mail host, and one host that you can monitor for throughput, then point all your other hosts at it for delivery. Piece of cake right? Odd that it took me 30 minutes and then a final trip to the sendmail documentation to find it.

In the end we’re talking about 1 line in your sendmail.mc (I’ve consistently found that most of life’s problems can be solved with 5 to 50 characters in the right text file).

At any rate, the directive you are looking for is:

define(`SMART_HOST', `smart.host.com')dnl

Just replace “smart.host.com” with the smtp server you intend to use as the relay.

For those of you who don’t use the sendmail.mc, you need to modify the DS variable in your sendmail.cf (but really, find something better to do with your time than edit that file).

For all you sendmail.mc users, once that line is in place, run a “make” in your /etc/mail directory and then restart sendmail.

Actually, I was using this mess of a line to test:

touch /tmp/mail.txt; /etc/init.d/sendmail restart ; mail -s "Test2" me@myemail.com < /tmp/mail.txt ; tail -f /var/log/maillog

You’ll come up in a tail of maillog and you should watch for the relay host accepting your message. If it doesn’t get delivered, it’s time to look at the relay server.

That is all, have fun!

First:

Take the YouTube URL as an argument

$url = $argv[1];

Next:

Use a little shell magic to grab the video arguments for later use:

$vid_args = `lynx -source "$url" | grep video_id | grep fullscreen | awk -F'video_id=' '{print $2}' | awk -F'&title'

Next:

use basically the same command to grab the title of the video:

$title = 'lynx -source "$url" | grep video_id | grep fullscreen | awk -F'video_id=' '{print $2}' | awk -F'&title=' '{print $2}' ';

Then:

Do a little formatting of the title to make it useable:

$title = preg_replace("| |", "_", $title);
$title = trim($title);
$title = preg_replace("/^[^a-z0-9]?(.*?)[^a-z0-9]?$/i", "$1", $title);
$title = preg_replace("|'|", "", $title);
$title = preg_replace("|\)|", "", $title);
$title = preg_replace("|\(|", "", $title);
$title = preg_replace("|\/|", "_", $title);

Then:

Grab the flv with the video arguments you captured from the line above:

'wget -O /tmp/$title.flv "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$vid_args"';

Next:

Use ffmpeg to break it down to mp3 format:

'ffmpeg -i /tmp/$title.flv -ar 44100 -ab 160k -ac 2 /tmp/$title.mp3';

Finally:

Dump the flv and enjoy:

'rm -f /tmp/$title.flv';

These files are of course only for educational purposes when you are finished so make sure you delete them

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