Subject: Re: e-mail server working! (partly)
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 10:38:34 AKST
Yeah, I realize that, but for now I'm just happy to have it working. I
am going to try and fix up the settings better today.. :)
Justin
Craig Callender wrote:
> Putting acsalaska.net in there is NOT a good idea. Now, every single DSL
> user can use your mailserver to send out mail (or spam). If they catch
> you sending spam from your account they will disconnect you.
>
> So, if you have an internal network on your DSL line, you will want to add
> that network to your access file like this. Say your computers IP is
> 192.168.1.2 and you want everything on your network to be able to relay:
>
> 192.168.1. RELAY
>
> That will allow any IP that starts with that address to relay.
>
> Just some food for thought.
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:48:57 -0900
> From: Justin Dieters <enderak@yahoo.com>
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: e-mail server working! (partly)
>
>
>
>>As you can see, you can either put a line like the following in
>>/etc/mail/access:
>>
>> enderakonline.com RELAY
>>and ensure that all computers sending mail thru this server have address
>>records in dns, or you can list the domain in /etc/mail/local-host-names.
>>
>
> I had 'enderakonline.com RELAY' in the access file and it didn't work. I
> also tried 'enderakonline.com OK' and it still didn't work.
>
> Then I added 'acsalaska.net' to /etc/mail/relay-domains and it sent it, but
> the destination server gave me this error back:
> <<< 553 5.1.3 <enderak@linux:local>... Colon illegal in host name part
>
> So I found these lines in sendmail.cf and commented them out and restarted :
> # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
> DMlinux:local
>
> And now all seems to be working!! I'll be playing around with it more, but
> so far it seems to be good... I'm quite excited. :) Thanks to everyone
> today for all your help!
>
> Justin
>
>
>
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