sendmail_enable="NO" /"YES"/"MAYBE" ?

[Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg]

Richard Shea wrote:

>Thanks to both of you for your replies however this has raised another
>question ! ... (see below)
>
>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:16:54 +0200, "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg"
><listsub at 401.cx> said:
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>>Konrad Heuer wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Richard Shea wrote:
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>[Original Question snipped]
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>>>Yes, sendmail_enable="YES" will do the job.
>>>
>>>FreeBSD sendmail respects the TCP wrapper config file /etc/hosts.allow;
>>>you can limit access to sendmail there (look at "man 5 hosts_options").
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>>Checkout /etc/mail/access, it allows you to control who is permitted to 
>>relay trough your server.
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>Well I discovered I think that if I don't use /etc/mail/access in fact I
>cannot send mail through the FBSD box. (I get "550 5.7.1 ... Relaying
>denied"). So I went an looked at /etc/mail and there is a access.sample
>but not a plain access file so I copied and edited access.sample to
>include a line ...
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>192.168.10.4 OK
>
>... and rebooted but still I get the same error. On the system console I
>get a more verbose form of the same message but also "lost input channel
>from SS11232 [192.168.10.4] to MTA after rcpt" which doesn't sound too
>good to me.
>
>Am I using the access file correctly here ? Am I right in thinking that I
>MUST use the access file or could I just ignore it ? Should I have
>renamed access.sample to access ?
>
>Thanks again for your help so far and any other help would be welcome.
>
>regards
>
>richard.
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After editing /etc/mail/access, run 'makemap hash /etc/mail/access < 
/etc/mail/access' to rebuild the access db and then restart sendmail.

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R