Re: [cobalt-users] funny mail-server configuration... RaQ4

["Jens Kristian Søgaard" <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

> I've just discovered I can't use the Cobalt server to send email
> anymore, even from inside my own network, unless I authenticate by
> username to send mail.  When did this change occur?  Is it reversible?
> If not, will it affect Matt's Formmail script?  anyone know?

I don't know exactly which update that does it... (there's lots of
them...)

> I'm really in need of getting this server into production by tomorrow.
> Monday at the absolute latest.  I've already got about 20
non-chargeable
> hours in it <frown>.
> Maybe I'll just downgrade it to RaQ3 software from a restore disk.
Will
> that work <smile>?

A bit overkill.

At least two simple solutions are possible:

  1. Simply stick 127.0.0.1 and all the other local IP addresses in the
popip.db file.

or

  2. Edit the sendmail.cf to remove the part that checks for it. Please
make sure your server is not an open-relay afterwards -- if unsure,
please use the test on http://www.ordb.org/


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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/