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

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:56:02AM -0400, Gordon wrote:
> 
> 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...

Sendmail doesn't do any checks for relaying outside what you
tell it to do in SCheck_Rcpt -- check your /etc/sendmail.cf
file.  Although the sendmail.cf file shipped with RaQ and RaQ2
is the default entries used from RedHat 5.X and up -- where it
will check both DNS and IP.  You would have to be in a hostname
or IP (or IP block) configured as relay allowable.

In the web interface, just click on Control Panel->Services->Mail
parameters

In there add the appropriate entries to the relay box.


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