From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 10:15:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from green002.greenmachine.net (unknown [63.174.216.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F4537B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:15:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from jpersinger (jpersinger.greenmachine.net [63.174.216.137]) by green002.greenmachine.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e9UECeH04709; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:12:49 GMT (envelope-from jpersinger@greenmachine.net) Reply-To: From: "Jim Persinger" To: "'Chris Fedde'" , "Jim Persinger" Cc: "'Daniel Bye'" , Subject: RE: Relay section needs appending Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:09:56 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <200010301644.e9UGiVI51779@fedde.littleton.co.us> Disposition-Notification-To: "Jim Persinger" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All - The two files that I found was: hosts and local-host-names....and they appear right.. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Fedde [mailto:chris@fedde.littleton.co.us] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:45 AM To: jpersinger@greenmachine.net Cc: 'Daniel Bye'; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Relay section needs appending On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:03:47 -0500 "Jim Persinger" wrote: +------------------ | Our pcs are using Outlook 2000....they all can receive email fine, but none | (except myself) can send... I have win2000 and they have win98 (yuck). | | I was told that Sprint has activated the reverse DNS and that should of took | care of email leaving the building...but not! On the bind issue, how do I do | this? (sorry - I'm a windows guy....but I happy to be learning UNIX). +------------------ Outbound mail is typically done via SMTP. I'm guessing that you are running sendmail as is the default SMTP server for the FreeBSD install. If that is the case then the default configuration is going to refuse to relay mail for users that it does not consider local. You can prove this by first running ps -auxww | grep sendmail on the freebsd box, then check to see that the clients are getting an error message that says "relaying denied" somewhere in the text. Sendmail needs to have two things to be able to do what you want. First it has to know how to turn an IP addres into a name. Second it has to be configured to allow the clients to relay mail through it. The simplest way to do all this is to list the internal hosts in the /etc/hosts file. Then to add these machine names to a file called /etc/mail/relay-domains. When that is done your FreeBSD machine should allow those hosts to relay mail. If you want to learn more about all this look at the links on spam control at www.sendmail.org. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message