Re: How to send mail with POP/sendmail?

[Stefan Kluth <skluth@persil.lbl.gov>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Stefan Kluth wrote:
> > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil tcplogd: smtp connection attempt from
> > unknown@bbrmac1.lbl.gov [128.3.5.53]
> > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil sendmail[2062]: RAA02062: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> > arg1=<skluth@lbl.gov>, relay=bbrmac1.lbl.gov [128.3.5.53], reject=550
> > <skluth@lbl.gov>... Relaying denied
> You were a victim of a few new anti-spam facilities in sendmail.
> 
> sendmail does not by default allow to be used as a relay by any machine,
> which is what the mac is asking for. You should add your mac (or your whole
> domain to the set of host where relaying is permitted.
> 
> For the latter you could add the line
> 
> RELAY_DOMAIN(`lbl.gov')dnl
> 
> to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and say
>    sendmailconfig
> as root. Never mess around directly with sendmail.cf.
Great, this worked, I only had to stop and start sendmail once after I
said sendmailconfig to get it to work again. 

Is this documented somewhere? Yes, I did read the man pages for sendmail,
but these did not give much information about configuration. 

Thanks again, cheers, Stefan

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