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From:      "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail issue
Message-ID:  <20010201052952.B7876@arrakis.desert-power.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A759D99.5313B7EE@niicommunications.com>; from jason.hunt@niicommunications.com on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:43:42AM -0500
References:  <3A759D99.5313B7EE@niicommunications.com>

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How about setting up a web server as an email client on your interal
network?

That way you have another server doing it from the inside. That's the
way we have it set up where I work at. Ours is a web server client.

Mark

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:43:42AM -0500, Jason Hunt wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am having a slight problem that I can't pin down that hopefully
> someone can help me out with.
> 
> I have setup a mail server for our company, and everything
> is working properly except for a paticular person who has
> to use our smtp server from remote.  I am only allowing
> relaying from our firewall (so win machines that are natd
> behind it can use the smtp server).  The problem with
> this one user is that he can only send mail to people
> that the have accounts on the server.  If he tried to send
> email though the server to someone else on there
> ineternet, its gets Relaying denied.  When I configured
> the mailserver macro file I used the FEATURE('access_db') -
> in the /etc/access.db (which is a hash file), I added
> our firewall to get relaying to work.  However, now I am
> trying to put this person email address in there so that it
> will also relay.  According to what I have read the access
> text database can have examples like the following:
> 
> IP    RELAY
> user@ispmail.net    RELAY
> 
> well it seems that having the email address of the
> person in question does not work -- only to
> people that have email accounts on that machine.
> 
> Anyone know what I am doing wrong here or how
> I can get this person to use our smtp server?  I can't
> do it by IP since he is on a dialup and its dynamic, and
> I do not want to allow the enter IP's that paticular
> dialup has :)  Thanks for any help
> 
> 
> 
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