From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 15:32:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E887014BFE for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:32:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpeters2@home.com) Received: from charles ([24.4.115.203]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990822223122.POZA1639.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@charles>; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:31:22 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Charles A. Peters" To: , "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: RE: Rejected email messages due to relaying being denied (error 550) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:45:24 -0400 Message-ID: <000001beecf0$058597e0$cb730418@charles.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <37C075F1.5F554013@ix.netcom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In looking at my /etc/hosts.allow file, I find the following line: ALL : ALL : allow then later in the file: sendmail : localhost : allow sendmail : .nice.guy.example.com : allow sendmail : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny sendmail : ALL : allow Shouldn't these lines be allowing everything needed for other domains to be able to check (those with valid accounts on my server) from my server and send mail to my server. Also, how does this file interact with sendmail and the /etc/mail/relay-domains files. Thanks, Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: mremski@bsg-ma-pm1.netcom.net > [mailto:mremski@bsg-ma-pm1.netcom.net] > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 6:13 PM > To: cpeters2@home.com > Cc: freebsd-question@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Rejected email messages due to relaying being > denied (error > 550) > > > Hi Charles. > > Take a look at your /etc/hosts.allow. You probably need > to add "allow" > lines for your other hosts. File is heavily commented, so > have at it. > > mike > -- > "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike." > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message