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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Sendmail: "550 Relaying denied" after boot up;
	restart sendmail solves problem !?!
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On 2006-02-23 02:37, Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a weird problem with my mail server.
> It's running 6-Stable as Feb. 23rd.
>
> After a boot up, sendmail refuses to deliver
> emails with a
>
>  reject=550 5.7.1 [...] Relaying denied
>
> When I then simply restart sendmail manually:
>
>   /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart
>
> the problem is solved and email is correctly
> delivered without any Relay denials.
>
> Any idea what this can be?
> And how to get this right immediately after boot up?

You haven't really told us anything that can help us understand that the
*real* problem is.  Are there interesting error messages in your
`/var/log/maillog' file?  What do these messages say?