Having said that, I've found relaying by name better than by subnet
because anything coming across a NAT'd router will appear local.

<<JAV>>

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:31, Joe Polk wrote:
> Most ISP's don't allow send, only receive. Otherwise, they'd have to
> allow relaying for just about everyone which is where the bulk of spam
> traffic comes from. 
> 
> I'm curious about your setup. You have a 134 address. Why don't you have
> your sendmail server and client behind something? Anyway, the reason you
> are getting relaying denied is because relaying is not setup for
> sendmail for that subnet. ideally, that's a good thing. Typically, you
> would set your server and clients behind a fw or something on a private
> address scheme, then just relay for the local subnet. That would avoid
> the relaying denied error.
> 
> <<JAV>>
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:51, Joel Lopez wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, how do ISP's or business' set up their email servers so
> > that if you have an account you can connect from any computer as long as you
> > know the incoming/outgoing mail servers and your username/password?
> > 
> > Can sendmail be safeley configured to do this?
> > 
> > Joel Lopez
> > User Support Specialist, Information Technology
> > (909) 607-4793
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mihai Tanasescu
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:46 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: sendmail - cannot send outgoing mail
> > 
> > 
> > You must place the ip 134.173.132.184 from which you are connecting to
> > your sendmail server inside the file access.conf from /etc/mail/ .(I
> > think)
> > This allows your server to accept messages sent from your ip to be send
> > to other e-mail addresses.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joel Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:33 PM
> > Subject: sendmail - cannot send outgoing mail
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have sendmail set up and I can send mail from the command line and
> > recieve
> > > email.  But when I configure netscape to recieve my mail on another
> > machine
> > > I can recieve mail but I can't send mail out.
> > >
> > > The error message I get is:
> > > 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied.  IP name lookup
> > > failed [134.173.132.184]
> > > Please check the message recipients and try again.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea what this means and what I could do to fix
> > it?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Joel
> > >
> > >
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