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Date:      Fri, 7 May 1999 12:17:39 -0600
From:      Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To:        Jacob Ritorto <jritorto@nut.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tighter sendmail this time..
Message-ID:  <19990507121739.B11304@fisicc-ufm.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905071340540.827-100000@blitzen.pennsuburban.com>; from Jacob Ritorto on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 02:02:44PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905071340540.827-100000@blitzen.pennsuburban.com>

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On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 02:02:44PM -0400, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
> After installing 3.1, I found that the security on sendmail is tighter.
> Specifically, relaying is disabled.  I have no hope of configuring that
> sendmail.cf file myself, so is there a simple way to enable relaying? It's

create a file called /etc/mail/relay-domains and add there the ip's or domain
names of the machines you want to relay email from. it's best not to relay
to any machine as you can be used as a spam relay.

> just for our internal pc network.  I previously had it set up so that the
> bsd machine popped the mail off of the isp, then waited for the local pc
> to pop it for their mail (all to one address with a .forward file
> distributing it to all the internal accounts).  Crude, yes.  But also very
> cheap and effective until sendmail started refusing to relay the outgoing
> stuff..
> 
> Please help soon.  I don't want them to think they should've just bought
> a microsoft mail server...
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 

regards,

-Oscar


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