what about leting homepc.home.com and friendpc.xyz.com relay thru my server?
How the access file woud look like?
homepc.home.com RELAY
friendpc.xyz.com RELAY
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: How to make my server to RELAY anywhere for my pc on a
differentdomain?
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Hector M Banda wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I want to tell my server to RELAY anywhere for user.anydomain.com.
> >
> > In essence, I want to let some specific users send e-mail thru my
> server from different domains.
> >
>
> Well, if you really mean what you have said: to send mail from other
> systems (to yet other systems) by relaying through you, then:
>
> the list of machines which are authorized to RELAY mail through
> your smtp service is found in the file:
>
> /etc/mail/access.db
>
> which is formed by editing the file:
>
> /etc/mail/access (text file) and then using the following command to
> "compile" (or hash) it into the database file .db:
>
> makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access
>
> You should already see an entry for:
>
> 127.0.0.1 RELAY (so you can send mail from your own
> machine!)
>
> The problem is: you don't want to put in a whole domain in this relay
> permission file unless you really mean it: do you really want every
> machine in the specified domain to be able to relay through you?
> So, if you can figure out a concise enough list to allow to relay, you
> can do it this way. However you don't want to open up relay to every
> AOL or Mindspring user, so be careful!
>
> You can experiment by adding just a couple of machines, and testing.
> Then you can try to figure out the best way to specify the machines to
> which you want to grant mail relay.
>
>
>
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