From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 7:17:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06591577D for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14811; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:15:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05170; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:15:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990420161520.009e4e40@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:15:20 +0200 To: "James C. Durham" From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: sendmail check_rcpt fix Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199904201152.LAA20066@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11.52 20/04/99 GMT, you wrote: >The "check_rcpt" ruleset as shipped with the >sendmail.cf file that comes with the 3.1-RELEASE >appears to be broken. It does not allow machines >on a local LAN with unregistered IP addresses to >relay mail through a server running 3.1-RELEASE with >the stock sendmail.cf file. The mail is rejected with >"relaying denied" from the check_rcpt ruleset. AFAIK, it's not a bug, it's a feature... Sendmail >= 8.9.x changed the previous default "open" relaying policy to deny "foreign" systems relaying mail to other "foreign" systems (anti-spam rule). I guess local machines with unregistered IPs are "foreign" from the sendmail's point of view. --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message