From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 17:58:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from locutus.omen.com.au (reggae-08-104.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E7915888 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deece@newmillennium.net.au) Received: from picard (picard [203.8.109.107]) by locutus.omen.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id IAA79251 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:57:52 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from deece@newmillennium.net.au) Message-ID: <03da01beee49$12ddc660$6b6d08cb@omen.com.au> From: "Alastair D'Silva" To: "Freebsd-Questions" References: <002101beeced$26e811e0$cb730418@charles.domain> Subject: Re: sendmail relaying rules causing problems Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:55:14 -0700 Organization: New Millennium Networking MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles A. Peters To: Freebsd-Questions Sent: Sunday, 22 August 1999 15:24 Subject: sendmail relaying rules causing problems > I have a small email server that hosts about 200 email accounts. The > account holders typically check their email from locations such as > bellsouth.net, innova.net, carol.net, mindspring.net, etc..., but > when they check from these domains, they get a relaying denied error > 550 message back from my server. I found that I can fix this by > placing their ip address in my /etc/mail/relay-domains file, but if > they dial in later, I have to change the address in the > /etc/mail/relay-domains file and killall -hup sendmail. This is not > practical. > > I have considered turning off the relaying rules in sendmail to fix > the problem, but I don't want to leave my server open for abuse. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this? > > Thanks in advance! > > Charles > > mailto: cpeters2@home.com > mailto: charles@chickenbean.com > Simple solution, get them to use the mail server local to their ISP for sending mail, and only have them check mail off your server via pop3/imap4. -- Alastair D'Silva Networking Consultant New Millennium Networking deece@newmillennium.net.au 0413 485 733 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message