incoming mail access issue

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat May 14 07:06:17 PDT 2005


On Fri, 13 May 2005, Paul Keyes wrote:

> Hi, Thanks for the questions.  I am using Sendmail as
> an MTA:
>
>> *) is your mailserver a public service or a local
>> one ?
>
> I can't figure out how to configure this.  How do I do
> it?
> I've tried modifying my /etc/mail/hostname.mc and
> running:
> make
> make install
> make restart
>
> ...but I can't find clear documentation that addresses
> my problem (I can only send mail from one outside
> address)
>
>> *) are you sending those email locally or from
>> another machine on the
>> internet ?
>
>> From the elsewhere on the internet.  Sending mail
> locally works fine.

So you want to relay for specific outside hosts?  You can control that 
with entries in /etc/mail access:

example.com	RELAY

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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