Best Way to Control Relaying?

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Muhammad Nauman wrote:
>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Despite having this in my access fil
>>>
>>> # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the
>>> sendmail-doc # package.
>>> #
>>> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
>>> localhost.localdomain           RELAY
>>> localhost                       RELAY
>>> AUTH    : OK
>>> *       : REJECT
>>>
>
> No i telnet it on port 25 from another machine .
>
> where i could find any error abt it ?
>
>
>
Did you recompile the access file? Usually "make -C /etc/mail" or 
"makemap hash < /etc/mail/access > /etc/mail/access.db" and then restart 
the sendmail process (or MailScanner) should do it.

I never have to use "AUTH: OK" and "*: REJECT" ... it's set up that way 
implicitly.