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Re: Is sendmail open to relay?



> The .mc file has a line that says FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX)dnl and i
> believed that this would be enough... 

I would have thought so.  Are you running sendmail 8.9?

>                                                               Can
> someone please explain me how can i check if the relay is open 

You can use a mail client on another machine (e.g. pine), set the
smarthost and try it.  There used to be a web site that could do a test
for you: http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ar-test.html  They don't do the
test anymore but have info.

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