On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 11:13, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 11:05, Mark Haney wrote: > > I am trying to get sendmail setup to sendmail (obviously), but I can't get > > it to send any mail, it says 'relaying denied'. I was looking on the > > sendmail website for FAQ's on this and all I got was a file named > > relay-domains, but I can't find that file. Is that a file that I can > > manually create? Or is there another way to specify what domains and IP > > addresses can relay mail through it? > > > > If you want other systems to be able to send email through your sever > using sendmail then you need to configure the access file located in the > /etc/mail directory. > > This will will contain a list of IPs or systems that look something > like: > > localhost.localdomain RELAY > localhost RELAY > 127.0.0.1 RELAY > 192.168.1 RELAY > > > I believe the first three lines in the example are the default. The > last line is an example of what you might add so machines on your > internal LAN can relay email through the server. This line can be > specific for each machine or in this example it covers the entire > subnet. > > Once you have made the changes you can do a make in the /etc/mail > directory. This will generate the access.db file from the access file. > At this point you should restart sendmail and test. (service sendmail > restart). > > That should get you in business. > You will also need to modify the following section of sendmail.mc to allow the server to listen on the local LAN if not already done. dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback address dnl # 127.0.0.1 and not on any other network devices. Remove the loopback dnl # address restriction to accept email from the internet or intranet. dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl dnl # > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > dynamic software linking table corrupted >
