From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 17:35:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB5916A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seeker.dhs.org (d150-57-33.home.cgocable.net [24.150.57.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1883244011 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veritas@cogeco.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by seeker.dhs.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8Q0Zgd3053084 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:35:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from veritas@cogeco.ca) From: Veritas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:35:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309252035.42593.veritas@cogeco.ca> Subject: Sendmail: Refusing Connections, and authentication/relaying X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:35:47 -0000 Two prime issues for me on this one. First, and most crucial: sendmail seems to be set up and working fine; I can send mail from the local machine to other hosts. However, I haven't been able to convince it to accept SMTP connections from other hosts. cyrus-imapd seems to be set up and running fine, but the smtp port is, according to a friend, filtered and unavailable. I've been trying to scan through the sendmail configuration readme as well as the FreeBSD handbook, and will continue looking, but as of this time I haven't found a way to open it up to outside connections. FreeBSD 5.1, sendmail 8.12.9, no firewall presently running. Once I can get sendmail accepting connections, it brings me to point B: Is it possible to set up sendmail so that local users can send to wherever, but remote users have to authenticate to do so(and can basically use my server as a remote mail host)? I don't want to run sendmail promiscuously, but it would be very nice if I could convince it to allow authenticated remote users to send to anywhere. Or am I confused on the definition of "relay"? If it doesn't apply to people who use authentication, I'm already fine, and can just work on setting up secure auth. -BB