Re: [cobalt-users] FAQ: email relaying.

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Dom Latter wrote:
> Well then I'm completely wrong about this bit:
> 
> "If you get a "relaying denied" error, it is (generally) because your 
>  desktop machine is not registering as being "local", due to a failure
>  of reverse DNS."
> 
> ... so I'm kinda hoping for a comment!

ok, comment "your completely wrong about this"

sendmail does not do reverse lookups unless it has no domain name to start
with..failure to relay from desktop machines is because the name of the
users ISP isn't in the list of domains the web server has been told to
relay from...