On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Gary van Blerk wrote: > I am running sendmail and the problem I have is I can send mail from the > server but when I try send from a workstation it says "Undeliverable - > no transport provider to deliver messages to one or more recipients > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" My server can send and recieve mail fine but when a > workstation tries to send it to any non-local address this message pops > up. Has anyone ever had this problem?
sendmail refuses to relay by default, you need to configure yourself an access database to tell it which hosts it should allow relaying from: echo "172.16 RELAY" > /etc/mail/access makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access /etc/init.d/sendmail restart change 172.16 to the subnet your workstation is on; edit the file if you need more than one. there's a FAQ which mentions the access database feature somewhere -- i've not found any more explicit docs though -t ...... [obligatory-useless-waste-of-bits-bit-goes-here] ultra-umbra-magic-crypto EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 supercomputer-AES-xspook