From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 17:53:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1D715565 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-14.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.14]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA15451; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:53:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA42014; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:53:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199903310153.TAA42014@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Spam Me Here Cc: Juan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: problems with sendmail In-reply-to: Message from Spam Me Here of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:13:18 PST." <19990330141318.B7545@bear.berkeleycs.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:53:03 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spam Me Here writes: > You need to allow your machine to relay mail ( This is diabled by > default to prevent people from sending spam through your machine ). > > Typically the allowed maildomains are stored in /etc/mail/relay-domains, > althogh, your particular configuration might specify a diffrent location. > > the relay-domains file is composed of all the domains you want to > accept, for instance, my relay domains file allows all users > of the berkeleycs.ml.org network, my computer at home, and all users > of jacket.org. Speaking of "computer at home", I too am having problems with sendmail 8.9.2 refusing to accept email from exmh-2.0.2 on my local machine, but only when I'm not logged into the net. The entry in /var/log/maillog is: Mar 30 18:43:06 nospam sendmail[41739]: SAA41739: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1], reject=451 ... Sender domain must resolve I am not running a local named. Am guessing I should be. In the past have enabled the easy default "caching only DNS" and something about my pppd config always had to do a DNS timeout before attempting to dial the modem. Use pppd to establish my connection. "killall pppd" to bring it down. nospam.hiwaay.net does resolve to 127.0.0.1 in DNS. This business of a proper name for home Un*x boxes on dynamic IP addresses has always confused me. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message