OT: Modified access and relay-domains file, still get 550 5.7.1

[Ugo Bellavance]

Chris W. Parker wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I avoided sending this question here since it's off topic but I can't
> find a solution after about a week so here goes. :)
> 
> I'm trying to set up Swiftmailer (an SMTP library for PHP) to send email
> from my web machine through my MS box and then on to wherever it's
> going.
> 
> I have a few remote users that send email through their cellular phones.
> The way I got the phones to send successfully was by adding the
> carrier's sending mail server to /etc/mail/relay-domains. Now that I'm
> trying to relay mail from one of my own servers I thought I'd just add
> that servers host name to relay-domains (and restart) and everything
> would be fine. But alas...
> 
> Here is what my log says:
> 
> May 18 12:58:22 filter sendmail[16033]: l4IJwMD4016033:
> ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<swiftmail at swatgear.com>,
> relay=hachiroku.swatgear.com [67.17.248.232], reject=550 5.7.1
> <swiftmail at swatgear.com>... Access denied
> 
> I did some research (and asked a question in another forum) and thought
> that maybe I needed to add the IP address of the sending server to
> /etc/mail/access and then 'make'. Still no good.

This command helps you see the content of access.db:

strings /etc/mail/access

You can pipe the output to grep or less if needed.