Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:09:56 -0500 From: "Jim Persinger" <jpersinger@greenmachine.net> To: "'Chris Fedde'" <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>, "Jim Persinger" <jpersinger@greenmachine.net> Cc: "'Daniel Bye'" <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Relay section needs appending Message-ID: <C3143BFD1717D4119A2500B0D02263BC01C418@GREEN001> In-Reply-To: <200010301644.e9UGiVI51779@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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All -
The two files that I found was:
hosts and local-host-names....and they appear right..
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Fedde [mailto:chris@fedde.littleton.co.us]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:45 AM
To: jpersinger@greenmachine.net
Cc: 'Daniel Bye'; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Relay section needs appending
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:03:47 -0500 "Jim Persinger" wrote:
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| Our pcs are using Outlook 2000....they all can receive email fine, but
none
| (except myself) can send... I have win2000 and they have win98 (yuck).
|
| I was told that Sprint has activated the reverse DNS and that should of
took
| care of email leaving the building...but not! On the bind issue, how do I
do
| this? (sorry - I'm a windows guy....but I happy to be learning UNIX).
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Outbound mail is typically done via SMTP. I'm guessing that you
are running sendmail as is the default SMTP server for the FreeBSD
install. If that is the case then the default configuration is
going to refuse to relay mail for users that it does not consider
local.
You can prove this by first running
ps -auxww | grep sendmail
on the freebsd box, then check to see that the clients are getting
an error message that says "relaying denied" somewhere in the text.
Sendmail needs to have two things to be able to do what you want.
First it has to know how to turn an IP addres into a name. Second
it has to be configured to allow the clients to relay mail through
it. The simplest way to do all this is to list the internal hosts
in the /etc/hosts file. Then to add these machine names to a file
called /etc/mail/relay-domains. When that is done your FreeBSD
machine should allow those hosts to relay mail. If you want to
learn more about all this look at the links on spam control at
www.sendmail.org.
chris
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