make sure you have your client pc in your /etc/mail/access file. mine looks like so....... # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file) # 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 127.0.0.1 RELAY 192.168.0 RELAY <client IP addresses> then do a m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf then /etc/init.d/sendmail restart Don Dupy Systems Administrator Maxxrad PC Services http://www.maxxrad.net email: fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote: > OK. I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this > address to michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (my primary email address under my > domain) the mail gets returned with this error: > > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server. > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why > each recipient was rejected. > > Recipient: <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reason: 5.7.1 <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Relaying denied. > Proper authentication required. > > Also, whenever I try to send email from michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I get > this error: > > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server. > Bad authentication response from server. > > > Please enter the SMTP password for michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the > client PC, but it won't accept it. Mail worked just fine on my server > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running > RH9. I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC. > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1) > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's > /etc/mail. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone help me with this? > > -Michael Sullivan- > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
