On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Michael George wrote: > What we'd like to do is to have the Macs point their mail apps to the Linux > server so that that server can send the mail out directly. Right now, though, > that doesn't work. > > The Linux server sits behind a firewall which does not allow access to an SMTP > port, so it should be pretty secure to just let the sendmail on that system > relay mail from any system on the internal network to any system on the > outside. > > >From reading /usr/share/sendmail-cf/README, it seems that the feature > "promiscuous_relay" would do what we want. So, I added: > FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay') > to the redhat.mc file in /usr/share/sendmail-cf/cf and ran m4 on it. I put > the resulting file in as my /etc/sendmail.cf file and restarted sendmail. > > However, when we tried to have one of the Macs use our server as the SMTP host > for outgoing mail, it timed out and failed.
your sure there is no firewall blocking it? > Is there something I missed? I've never used qmail (I've gotten used to using > the files in /usr/share/sendmail-cf so I've stuck with it), but would that be > an easier way to do this? you might try this/check these items: . go back to the previous /etc/mail/sendmail.mc -> /etc/sendmail.cf - be certain sendmail is listening on the IP addresses your setting up in your mail clients. double check the line in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc like DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') is either commented out or has the IP address you want (multiple lines, each with a different IP are ok). - check with `netstat -a --inet` . you probably want a line like this in /etc/hosts.allow sendmail: ALL . add the IP addresses of the hosts that you which to relay to /etc/mail/access like this: 192.168.1.1 RELAY be sure to make this into the database hash that sendmail wants: cd /etc/mail make service sendmail restart -- chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
