Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it, as I am finally getting an understanding of relaying options under sendmail... Woody Computer Technician Security Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Woody wrote: > > > 1. If you put localline.com OK in access file, remote users can relay off > > of you. > > Incorrect. > > > 2. If you don't put your domain in that file, than your users won't be > > able to send any mail out, not locally, but out of the domain. > > If you want sendmail to relay mail from other systems (e.g. > workstations on an internal network), you have to tell sendmail that > it's OK to relay mail from those systems. > > You can do this by adding either IP addresses or hostnames to > /etc/mail/relay-domains, or by adding entries to the access_db with > the RELAY tag as the value. > > > 3. Do you need to specify your domain in that file? > > Sendmail will always accept mail for hostnames which are in class w, > and will always accept mail which is sent from the local host. > > The cases which need to be configured are those where the mail is > received from one host to be sent to another, and neither of them are > the host on which sendmail is running. > > > One of our users has said that he can send mail to his friends yet, > > when he tries to send mail out to ONE certain person, he gets > > Relaying Denied. This is not possible, correct? > > That depends upon what is generating the `Relaying denied' error. Is > it definitely your sendmail which is rejecting the message? > > -- > Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
