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Re: [cobalt-developers] Sendmail Not Relaying From Perl or Command Line



Hi Steve

Have u tried using other mail addys for debugging?

Do u reach other domains, or is this an error u get whenever u use
sendmail directly from shell??

is the  mail address reffering to a local mailbox?


@lfa



On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Steve McDonald wrote:

> 
> Im getting the following error from the telnet command line :
> 
> [root@ns1 main]# /usr/sbin/sendmail support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx User unknown
> 
> and this error from perl scripts accessing sendmail through a pipe:
> 
> support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx User unknown
> /root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter
> 
> It seems as though I cannot execute sedmail in either mode due to 
> relay restrictions.  I install software on servers all day and 
> have never had a relay problem from executing sendmail in either
> of the configurations above.
> 
> Is there a special configuration to maintain standard SMTP relay
> protection, but allow access to perl scripts and root/admin at the 
> command line?
> 
> Please advise!
> 
> Steve McDonald
> smc technologies, Inc.
> 2116 East Fairmount Avenue
> Baltimore, MD 21231 USA
> Phn: 4103426280
> Fax: 2024780783
> Web: www.smctechnologies.com
> "providing excellence in internet innovations"
> 
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