Thanks a bunch for the insights Steve!
At 22:07 22.10.2002, Cowles, Steve said:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ernest E Vogelsinger
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:15 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: SendMail/Relying question
>>
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> a question for sendmail gurus:
>>
>> I have sendmail 8.11.6 running and linuxconf's vpop3 virtual
>> pop3 server via xinetd. Unfortunately the vhost configuration
>> tool directly modifies the sendmail.cf file when configuring
>> virtual domains, so the original m4 cannot be used to add
>> anything new to the sendmail config, without loosing
>> my vhost configuration.
>
>FWIW: The sendmail.org site recommends that you do NOT use linuxconf to make
>changes to sendmail's config files. Edit your .mc file directly and rebuild
>your .cf using m4
>
>>
>> Sendmail is set to not relay anything except localhost. I now
>> need to allow relaying from our internal network (10.10.10.0/24) to
>> anywhere, but have absolutely no clue as to how to put this stuff
>> directly into the cf file.
>>
>> If anyone has experience with hacking the .cf I'd be grateful
>> for any help I can get...
>>
>
>You shouldn't have to edit or add anything to your .mc file to permit
>relaying. Relaying is controlled by either adding your network address to
>/etc/mail/access -or- if configured, adding your network address (or domain
>name) to /etc/mail/relay-domains.
>
>#/etc/mail/access
>10.10.10 RELAY
>
>Then rebuild the access database by running make in /etc/mail. Since your
>editing a database, you do not have to restart sendmail.
>
># /etc/mail/relay-domains
>mydomain.com -or-
>10.10.10
>
>If you chose the relay-domain method, you will have to restart sendmail.
>
>BTW: When you get some time, consider upgrading to the latest version of
>sendmail and implemting SMTP Auth. Then you can delete the above enties in
>favor of all smtp clients having to authenticate before sending (relaying)
>off of your server.
>
>Steve Cowles
>
>
>
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