Quick Sendmail access question

David C.M. Weber david.weber at BACKBONESECURITY.COM
Fri Feb 25 15:06:18 GMT 2005


Found my problem.  Turns out I didn't have my domain listed in
"relay-domains".  I wonder how it was even working this whole time...


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Pete Russell
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 6:19 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Quick Sendmail access question


I dunno about sendmail, but these users would also need to be members of
a domains that is accepted as relay_doamin in postfix.

You will need to check in sendmail which maps are looked at first -
chances are you have rejected this mail based on its domain before you
test about per user settings? - just guessing...




David C.M. Weber wrote:
> I'm trying what Peter mentioned in the access file, to get the 
> per-user relaying set up.  My config file is:
>
> localhost.localdomain                   RELAY
> localhost                               RELAY
> 127.0.0.1                               RELAY
>
> # allow external hosts to only relay to backbonesecurity.com addresses
> To:me at mydomain.com                    RELAY
> To:mydomain.com                550 REJECT some random error
>
>
> #allow the internal email server to use this as a smart host
> 216.144.184.6                           RELAY
> 216.144.184.8                           RELAY
> after a Mailscanner restart, no email is being relayed.  I'm getting a

> "relaying denied" for everyone.  It looks like it's only allowing me 
> to relay the whole domain, not an individual user.  Am I missing a 
> setting somewhere?  Ack! This is frustrating!!!
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