Well, this seems to have solved my email woes! Just sent and received an email to myself at my earthlink address.
Thanks so much. Everyone on this list has been so incredibly helpful! daniel On (10/10/02 16:22), Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:30:07PM -0700, Daniel Goldin wrote: > > Here is what earthlink sent me: > > > > > > * The mail server used to send your e-mail has been > > confirmed to be vulnerable to third party relay. For > > Unlikely, since you've installed sendmail from 7.3 and relaying is > disallowed by default. > > > * Your e-mail attempted to pass directly from a dynamically > > assigned IP range (such as dialup, cable, or DSL) to the > > EarthLink network (known as "direct to MX") > > without first routing through the appropriate SMTP > > server. Please visit: > > VERY likely since sendmail is smart enough to deliver mail directly. A > good fix for this would be to use sendmail's SMART_HOST feature. For my > own ISP, I've got the following in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: > > define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp:mail.attbi.com')dnl > > You'll need to define Earthlink's SMTP mailer here. Once you've edited > sendmail.mc (and make a BACKUP before you start!!!), do the following: > > # m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf > # service sendmail restart > > When you've done this, you've basically told sendmail to redirect all > its e-mail to EL's SMTP server. From there, it will be delivered to its > final destination. This isn't so bad - any redeliveries happen > automatically after they've left your system. I've run into cases > myself where braindead mailers have rejected e-mail coming from my > system, but when I switched to using a smart host, those issues went > away. > > Your users won't notice any change except maybe in the bounce messages. > If you spell a domain name wrong (say .cmo instead of .com), you'll get > a bounce message from EL, not from your own sendmail. > -- Daniel Goldin 323.225.1926 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
