Subject: Re: e-mail server working! (partly)
From: Tom (thogland@alaskatech.org)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2002 - 11:18:22 AKST
On 17 Feb 2002, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> I've never set up a mailserver - so maybe I'm out of line. But if I try
> to send mail on GCI's smtp server with the return address in my mail
> program (Evolution or whatever) set to me@alaska.net, I get back a
> similar 'relaying' message. So maybe you need to change who your mail is
> comming from.
Well, I updated the Debian sendmail 8.9.3 to 8.12.2, reconfigured it to
use sensible_mda, and all of a sudden everything works as desired -
setting the smtp server to my mail server sends fine now. I downloaded
8.12.2 from sendmail.org, followed the generic compile and install
directions, then added in the Cwalaskatech.org and the define() for
sensible_mda and recompiled/installed the .mc file... Magic - it all
works.
My error log showed a conflict between what the DHCP server at GCI thought
my name was (ending in .anchorageak.net) and what my actual domain is
(alaskatech.org)...
No idea, but it works :-)
>
> Jim
>
> On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 08:44, Tom wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, 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.
> >
> > Okay - that explains why it works: Anyone with a acsalaska.net hostname is
> > seen as being a local host... I'm fighting similar probs on a cable modem
> > - if I try to use smtp.alaskatech.org as my outgoing server, it fails with
> > 'relaying not allowed', but if I use smtp.gci.net it works. Adding
> > anchorageak.net (which is the domain name auto-assigned to cable modem
> > users) to relay-domains allows things to work.
> >
> > One error I get in my mail.log is that my system, which looks like
> > 'cable-<ip address>. anchorageak.net', is trying to advertise itself as
> > 'erwin.alaskatech.org'. Is this conflict perhaps related to the problem?
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm not running an internal network, so I can get any of a
> > number of IPs; I don't think putting '24.237.' in there as relay would be
> > good :-)
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