Re: [cobalt-users] smtp question

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:44 AM 2/29/00 -0600, you wrote:
> Find the line in your sendmai.cf file (/etc/sendmail.cf) that reads:
>
> #anything else is bogus
> R$*    $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 Relaying Denied"

Didn't find that in my copy of sendmail.cf.  Mine read "Relaying 
denied".  This is linux, and in linux, capitalization counts.

> And comment the line out.

And you're saying that this will automatically enable POP before smtp?

Or are you saying it will open his server so everyone in the world can spam 
using it?

What do you know that Eric Allman (the author of sendmail) doesn't?

Jeff

> Regards,
> Brian Emerson
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <mailto:bsilverberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>Brad Silverberg
> > To: <mailto:cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 10:31 AM
> > Subject: [cobalt-users] smtp question
> >
> > I have a Raq2.  Does anyone know of enhancements to the smtp server so 
> > that when one of my users wants to send mail (eg, relay thru the smtp 
> > server), it does an authentication (password logon), rather than the 
> > current method that requires me to preconfigure the sending IP addresses 
> > in the mail server?  The reason I ask is that for people who use dialup 
> > to access the net via a large, national isp (such as AOL, worldnet, msn, 
> > etc), their IP addresses are dynamically assigned and the range is very 
> > large -- and I don't want to open up my smtp server to anyone who uses 
> > that ISP.   I am aware that some of these ISP's also have smtp servers 
> > which could be used when dialed into their network, but that requires 
> > each user to reconfigure his client depending on whether he's dialed in 
> > or not (not very nice for laptop users).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>