sendmail issues

[Thomas Farrell]

Not sure totally understand question.  I will take a stab at it.  sendmail
uses a file /etc/mail/access to controll relaying. It actually does not use
this file it uses /etc/mail/access.db  but this is a database file "hash"
which cannot be edited by people of ordinary intelligents or at least not
me.   Most probable cause of (of f network) users not being able to sendmail
is a relaying restriction. You may want to look into pop b4 smtp. Pop b4
smtp work's by clients authenticate against pop3 first the source IP of
client is added to  /etc/mail/access, access is turned into access.db
"makemap"  and sendmail is restarted and then client sends.

pop-before-smtp
http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/


All configuration files for sendmail are located in /etc/mail/
Example startup/stop script is located in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
Or you can just type  "Shell>ps -auxwww | grep send"  and then run "kill -9
PID"  to stop and "kill -HUP PID" to just restart.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Rice" <bernardr at nc.rr.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: sendmail issues


> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I'm having problems sending and receiving mail to and from my outside
> network.  All interfaces are up,and DNS is operating fine.  I've done not
to
> the setting.  I have rebooted the system which did not help. My
relay-domain
> addresses are still intact.
>
>
>
> The server is running 5.1 release. There are some patches on the system. I
> do not know a lot about Freebsd and less about sendmail as I inherited
this
> system from the ex-admin.
>
>
>
> Any HELP is appreciated
>
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