RE: [cobalt-users] Urgent: Mail Relaying with no relaying Allowed :(

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Bas van Ecke wrote:
> >
> This only works temporarely until they find another open relay within the
> your subnet.

  He said it was urgent, I didn't mean for it to be a permanent fix.
>
> The solution is (I thin) to change /etc/mail/access and access.db
> Cause in access there is 123.123.123 instead of 123.123.123.123

  It seems to me like sendmail reads the access.db file top to bottom
  and when it finds a match it stops. (not sure!)

  if you change the ip range in the cobalt area of access, it will
  get overwritten when you make changes in the GUI

> Can we just edit the access file or do we need to do more like recreating
> the access.db?

  When you edit the access file run
  makemap hash access.db < access

Gerald
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