Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:20:10 -0500 From: Tony Wells <tony@camel.kdsi.net> To: Ryan Dewalt <rdewalt@meridianksi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Question? Message-ID: <3B7409BA.32BA0B7E@camel.kdsi.net> References: <3.0.3.32.20010810112153.01b5b0a8@mail.meridianksi.com>
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Ryan Dewalt wrote: > > I have a minor problem under sendmail 8.11.2 on one of my machines. > > I've replaced a faulty mail server with a FreeBSD 4.2-Stable machine. All > has gone well for a month, with one exception. Users taking their laptops > home, can't send mail to Not-Our-Domain users, but can send just fine to > Domain users. (Can send to bob@ourdomain.com but not bob@foobar.com) > Yes, this is what should happen, sendmail denies relaying by default. > From information on sendmail.org on allowing controled smtp relaying, I'm > attempting to add FEATURE(relay_local_from). With the default sendmail.cf file you should be able to create a file called relay-domains in /etc/mail listing the domains you wish to allow relaying. (That file might already be there, but just empty.) > > I've added the line to the bottom of the generic-bsd4.4.mc and ran make > successfully on the file, generating the .cf > > I've replaced the current sendmail.cf with the new sendmail.cf (making a > backup of course) and I'm getting unusual behavior, perhaps someone can > shed a light, or at least point to more information? sendmail.org doesn't > seem to have a solution. > > What happens: > > (pre FEATURE) > domain users can send mail as normal. > > Not in the domain domain users (going through a dialup ISP at home for > example)can't send mail as domain users to non-domain users( 550, Relaying > denied ) but can send just fine to domain users. > > (post FEATURE) > Not in the domain users can send mail as normal > > domain users -appear- to send mail as normal, but the mail does not arrive. > > ----- > The only file that has changed is the sendmail.cf, it does find all the > previous sendmail.cw and so forth files just fine. No lines appear in > syslog or messages or maillog to give reason as to what is wrong. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to look for, or where I could > perhaps go for more information? Usenet articles from dejanews have > pointed me to the same FEATURE as sendmail.org, but as far as my searchings > have said, nothing points as to what is going wrong. > > -Thank you. > Ryan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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