Re: [cobalt-users] Broken Mail Relay

["Craig Hulbert" <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had the same problem.. can you send the command to me to make the
access.db ??? I am a newbie and can't find the command line to enter..

Thanks
Craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:37 AM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Broken Mail Relay


> 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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