[cobalt-users] SMTP relays no matter what!

[Carrie-Anne Ballard <halcyonfase@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys

I have been using POP3 email on my RaQ4 for some time
now without any problems. I usually send email through
my local ISP's SMTP, but their email server went down
for a few hours this morning - a good chance to try
out my own SMTP server...

So I changed the SMTP to my own domain and sent an
email (before POPing just to check), and was surprised
to see it go through. I have tried all combinations of
settings (and my dialup IP/domain name definitely
isn't in the 'relay for the following hosts' field in
the GUI) and it looks as if my SMTP is wide open. I
have tried telnetting (after enabling telnet
temporarily) to port 25 and can connect and send
anything I like straight from the server (and I
shouldn't be able to should if?). Lastly (and
bizzarly), I ssh-ed to my RaQ and did a tail -f
/var/log/maillog, then sent a message... and nothing
(beyond normal activity of other messages being
delivered to my mailboxes) - it does not show up at
all (it should, shouldn't it?!) even though the
message gets delivered to another (independent) email
address. One more bit of info: ps shows that only one
instance of sendmail is running.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what to do next so
that I can track this down? I would be most grateful
for suggestions.

Regards
CAB

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