RE: [cobalt-users] Broken Mail Relay

[Andy Brown <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I suspect the .pkg that seems to have 'broken' your relaying is a security
patch and has stopped ANYONE relaying through your machine.
Did you used to keep a list of IP addresses of your customers dial-up
connections to permit them to relay? As this is the only way to allow it in
the new versions of Sendmail which stop this spammers favourite way of
sending masses of mail.

Your choices are either keep your customers using their local mail relay (by
far the best solution), or if they use static IP addresses add these into
the /etc/mail/access file with the RELAY line:
195.122.122.122 RELAY
(Remember, you'll need to force it to recreate the access-file database
after modifications)


Andy Brown
Interv8 Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: M Smart [mailto:cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 August 2001 4:19 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] Broken Mail Relay


In short: Does anyone know a fix for restoring a broken relay?  Our RaQ4
stopped relaying mail about 4 months ago after an .pkg install.  Can't say
which .pkg it was, we generally download them monthly and there was a
number of them installed the day our relaying stopped.


History if you want it: 

About 4 months back we installed a number of package updates from the
Cobalt update download page:
http://www.cobalt.com/support/download/raq4.eng.html

Subsequently our server would error out a specific task when creating new
virtual hosts, that was building the relay file. We figured, screw it we'll
just add them through FTP and telnet as needed to the .access file.  Each
and every time we added a new vhost we would have to manually update the
.access file.  It didn't take long to learn this was not working either. 

We resorted to telling customers to use their ISP's mail server to relay
outbound mail. We don't want to continue doing that. We want to relay our
customers mail.

We have a second server now that we are considering setting up a mail
server and relaying mail, but before we do we want to give it one last
chance at fixing this mail issue.  I'm a man of principal and know that I
can't call Cobalt/Sun without paying in advance for a problem we did not
create.  Outside of this our RaQ4 has run like a top.

Peace and love Incorporated,
M Smart
SpyProductions.com


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