Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 06:12:55 -0000 From: "Jason Halbert" <res02jw5@gte.net> To: "Jim Durham" <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Cc: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mail Servers Message-ID: <00c401c06ca7$68482270$17622104@next> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012221756470.49448-100000@shazam.int>
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The evidence suggests that "Jim Durham" wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Jason Halbert wrote: > > > The evidence suggests that "Hudson, Henrik H." wrote: > > [SNIP] > > Jason, > > Without going into all kinds of details here because it's just > too long to explain... Sendmail for the last few years has > not allowed relaying unless you specifically allow it. > > What you have here is a version of sendmail that requires the > virtual user table and the access database. These are called > features". There is a file in /etc/mail called > "access". It tells sendmail who can access the system. > Relaying is controlled by putting in the access file > domain names or IP addresses of folks allowed to relay > through sendmail's SMTP port 25. Each line consists > of an IP or domain name followed by RELAY. IE; > > 100.100.100.100 RELAY > > This allows IP address 100.100.100.100 to relay thru sendmail. > > To make it work, refer to the first line of the sample access file. > It is an example of how to make the access.db file that > sendmail is sceaming for from the access text file > using makemap. > > Put the IP of your Windows box in there followed by RELAY > and run makemap. > > The Virtual User Table is also in /etc/mail. You also > use makemap to transform it into database. > "makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access". > > Please read the explanations of these two features on > www.sendmail.org and you will be OK. Also, read the > README file in /etc/mail. > Nice to see a ham and TV guy on here! I'm W2XO > and work at a mobile video company. > > -Jim Durham First, thanks for everyone thats helped with this... Here's my goal: I have a [small, I guess] server. I give out shells to my friends and let them host their web sites on it and let them use it for storing files and such. I thought it would be cool to have my own mail servers and stuff so everyone that has a shell could have an e-mail at my domian. Instead of having to add the host of everyone that has a shell and allowing them to relay, since most of them are on dial-up, is it possible to require a username and password auth. for them to send mail to the SMTP server? That way only authorized users with a shell would have access and then by default when I add a user they are ready to go without me needing to modify files? I have been reading sendmail.org and it's kinda confusing on how it does things. When I'm reading information it doesn't seem clear what file needs to be edited and then what to do with it. It seems like you have to modify one file then have it "compile", I guess, into something else. *whaps my head on the desk at the frustration of not getting this* =) Thanks --- ------------------------------------------------------- | Jason P. Halbert | res02jw5@gte.net | | Transmitter Maintenance Engineer | DALnet: Push^Pop | | KC5WEG | ICQ#: 86637300 | | KDAF-TV WB 33 | (214) 252-3300 | | KDTX-TV 58 | (972) 399-0058 | ------------------------------------------------------- | Fortune favors the well prepared. | | http://jason-n3xt.org | ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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