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Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kathleen — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:59:36 GMT

I want to allow one outside consultant to use our email system to relay mail outside our network.....how do I get that setup?

I tried adding him to the access list with RELAY allowed...using his email address. I can test using telnet mailserver.com 25 and putting his address as the sender. So far it likes that. Then I do the send to option and it says Relaying denied. If I do it to a local address on the email server, its ok. If I try to send outside, it says that. how do I allow it for this one user.

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kevin Wright — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:26:16 GMT

add the domain or his IP address to /etc/mail/relay-domains, uncomment the line out of sendmail.cf, and restart sendmail

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Tim Adamson_1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:30:17 GMT

Hi,

What version of sendmail are you running? I believe it should be possible with the later versions of sendmail and most likely you will need to setup an access db.

The file /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf/gen_cf shows the various relay options.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Jim Mallett — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:52:56 GMT

Is your mail server something like Exchange? Controlled a different administrator? It is possible that he has relaying turned off on your mail server. In my case, our Network Admin locked down the Exchange server so people could not relay from the outside and use our server to spam. I just had him add my internal IP addresses to the acceptable relay list and I was able to get beyond the mail server to outside addresses.
From there, follow the previous posts to limit relaying on your machine to a particular user. Just a thought.....

Jim

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kathleen — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:03:33 GMT

We do use sendmail. I have the person listed in the access list but it seems like it is ok with him sending...until he sends out of our network.

I know sendmail is configured to not allow relaying....but is it possible to allow it for this one user....

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

someone_4 — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:50:12 GMT

Hi try one of theese in your access file.

Connect:user@domain.com OK

user@domain.com OK

user@domain.com RELAY

Dont forget to recreate your access file.

makemap dbm /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access

Richard

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kevin Wright — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:23:40 GMT

Well, if your using a newer version, add the names to the access map as relay, and uncomment out relay_mail_from in sendmail.cf, or rebuild it with
FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') in your mc file

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kathleen — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:46:07 GMT

We are using sendmail 8.9.3.1....I don't see relay_mail_from as an option in the sendmail.cf file.

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

someone_4 — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:13:42 GMT

hi
first backup your orginal sendmail.cf file in the /etc/mail dir

cp sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.back

cd /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/cf/cf
./gen_cf

This will give you a menu to create a new sendmail.cf.gen

pick option 2 and option 6

from here you mv sendmail.cf.gen to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

mv sendmail.cf.gen /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

You should see the access.db

Richard

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kathleen — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:37:28 GMT

I have the access file....I just don't see that other option in the sendmail.cf file.....should I still do the rebuild?

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kathleen — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:39:03 GMT

I have tried to add the user in to Relay in the access file, I tried OK even. Not luck

It will except his name as a sender, but it will not send anything outside our domain for him. He can send to our local users just fine.

Re: Sendmail relay for one outside user

Kevin Wright — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:00:27 GMT

Well, you need something in sendmail.cf to utilize relaying features. Do you have the mc file that was used to build it??

On an 8.12.8 sendmail server, I have
/etc/mail/relay-domains

and
# Access list database (for spam stomping)
Kaccess hash -T -o /etc/mail/access.db

http://sendmail.org/tips/relaying.html