[WBEL-users] SMTP Issue

[rob]

---------- Original Message -----------
From: John Hinton <webmaster@ew3d.com>
To: Whitebox Linux <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Sent: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:41:45 -0400
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] SMTP Issue

> Rob Freeman wrote:
> 
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "John Hinton" <webmaster@ew3d.com>
> >To: "Whitebox Linux" <whitebox-users@beau.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:23 AM
> >Subject: [WBEL-users] SMTP Issue
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>OK.. got a snag. I have sendmail up and running and am receiving and
> >>able to retrieve email (internet mail) thru my server. Only trouble is I
> >>haven't found the key to being able to send out through the server. IMAP
> >>and POP are turned on... Got local-host set right... just can't send..
> >>keeps asking for password and does nothing.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Could be the /etc/mail/access file.  For instance, if the client you are
> >trying to send from has an ip address of 192.168.1.100, add it in here and
> >grant it relay rights.
> >
> >Rob
> >  
> >
> Ok, that does make it work.. but in the past I didn't have to open 
> relays for each individual user's IP.. an impossible task given the 
> dialup world. Has something changed in sendmail that no longer 
> allows an authentication of a user via user/pass which will allow 
> them to use for instance their hosted domain name to send mail 
> through our server?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Hinton

Here is a little light reading about relaying with sendmail 8.9:

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

http://www.akadia.com/services/sendmail_relay.html

Rob