On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:33:34PM -0800, Beaker (aka Jeff W) wrote: > Does anyone know how I might go about enabling incoming mail via > sendmail directly to my box, assuming it has a valid, world-readable > address?
First, you need to change the MX record for mydomain.org via DNS changes, so that other mail servers know where to send mail for mydomain.org. > I've always just used either fetchmail or similar, but I've got > valid name now and thought it would be nice to just have it send > directly, assuming its not a hugh security risk. It's kinda nice, an interesting thing to learn about and do, but: 1) you *are* opening up a port 2) spam 3) ISPs have backup servers, and you're probably already paying for that service > With my current default > sendmail setup (running as 'sendmail -db -q30m') I get the following error: > --- > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to mydomain.org.: > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <<< 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied > 550 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown > --- > * mydomain.org is made up (to protect the ignorant <me>) > > I probably need some sort of hack to do this, no? I think if I can > configure things to only accept mail from one particular relay and to > one particular name, % echo mydomain.org > ~/tmp % sudo cp ~/tmp /etc/mail/relay-domains % sudo cp ~/tmp /etc/mail/local-host-names > then it shouldn't be too risky, eh? ... curiosity killed the cat :-/ -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
