On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Stefan Kluth wrote: > > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil tcplogd: smtp connection attempt from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [128.3.5.53] > > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil sendmail[2062]: RAA02062: ruleset=check_rcpt, > > arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=bbrmac1.lbl.gov [128.3.5.53], reject=550 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied > You were a victim of a few new anti-spam facilities in sendmail. > > sendmail does not by default allow to be used as a relay by any machine, > which is what the mac is asking for. You should add your mac (or your whole > domain to the set of host where relaying is permitted. > > For the latter you could add the line > > RELAY_DOMAIN(`lbl.gov')dnl > > to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and say > sendmailconfig > as root. Never mess around directly with sendmail.cf. Great, this worked, I only had to stop and start sendmail once after I said sendmailconfig to get it to work again.
Is this documented somewhere? Yes, I did read the man pages for sendmail, but these did not give much information about configuration. Thanks again, cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---------------Lynen Fellow----------------|\--|\------- - LBNL, MS 50A 2160 - phone: +1 510 495 2376 - |/ |/ - - 1 Cyclotron Rd. - fax: +1 510 495 2957 - |\/\|\/\|' - ---Berkeley, CA94720, USA-----e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|/\/|/\/|----
