On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:30:34 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gene McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains
>
> >>>>> "Rick" == Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Rick> The sender will need to setup sendmail to masquerade as his
> Rick> firewall.
>
> In my case, telling my customer to change his configuration is not and
> acceptable option. I need my sendmail to be more forgiving.
>
No problem... add this to your sendmail.mc and regenerate:
FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl
you may also wish to add
FEATURE(accept_unqualified_senders)dnl
to allow those b0rked clients using HELO host /* with no domain */
> Hmmm. I guess I need to convert from sendmail to smail as I can't
> find anything in the sendmail documentation on this. Is there any
> other option? I think I tried smail first on my mail server machine,
> but I thought I had problems getting it to act as a relay for other
> nodes on my network, which are running sendmail. Yuck.
Ack... no need for that ;-} The above changes will allow your machine
to accept mail from your customer...
In /usr/doc/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES you'll find the changes - really
important since the bat book (v2) only goes to 8.8; Even with the
changes, it can be hard to figure out sometimes...
Thats where this list comes in; Unfortunately, my time has been *very*
limited of late and I've not been able to frequent the list or IRC ;-{
If I can't be found elsewhere, mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is usually answered promptly.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
Good luck, and let me know how it goes
--
Rick
