-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 12:51 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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I've had to switch from postfix to sendmail on our office server to accomodate Scalix. ... relay for local network. Where do I enable this? I looked through /etc/sysconfig/sendmail but there isn't an option for it. And what I see in /etc/sendmail.cf makes no sense at all :-)

Alas, you must learn to use that file... that's why I switched to postfix. If I remember correctly, there is a macro file that gets converted to the final configuration - but it is not easy to read, either. There were sample configs in the doc/package dir, if my memory serves me right. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEab9HtTMYHG2NR9URArb3AJ0YHCN/OG3q8bKJsV96rMTyk9NbewCggR6x mBp0w2Et6vQJiWbMl6ULYvw= =lA4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:49 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:02 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Alas, you must learn to use that file... that's why I switched to postfix.

If I remember correctly, there is a macro file that gets converted to the final configuration - but it is not easy to read, either. You have a gift for understatements.

I'm following the advice in the docs - adding the network to access file, i.e.

192.168.16 RELAY

but it simply doesn't seem to have an effect - I think there's some other setting somewhere taking preference over the default RELAY value, but I have no clue where to start looking.

In the YaST setup screen for sendmail (MTA) did you check the box for "accept remote SMTP connections"? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 15:30 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 09:19 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

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In the YaST setup screen for sendmail (MTA) did you check the box for "accept remote SMTP connections"?

No, I'm scared to mess with YaST - sendmail was set up by the Scalix installer and I really don't want to take any chances with it - it's a production machine. The only reason I want to add smtp relay is because we have a debian/postfix box next to the SUSE box which has a bunch of domains and does relay, that everybody in the building uses as a relay host, but it's being moved to a hosting facility tonight and I need to provide smtp relay somehow. I'm busy setting up another postfix box for the meantime :-)

OK. Then edit /etc/sysconfig/mail and check the following: # Set this to "yes" if mail from remote should be accepted # this is necessary for any mail server. # If set to "no" or empty then only mail from localhost # will be accepted. # SMTPD_LISTEN_REMOTE="yes" -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 16:56 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 10:43 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

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OK. Then edit /etc/sysconfig/mail and check the following:

# Set this to "yes" if mail from remote should be accepted # this is necessary for any mail server. # If set to "no" or empty then only mail from localhost # will be accepted. # SMTPD_LISTEN_REMOTE="yes"

By doing that, SuSEconfig (and yast) will rewrite sendmail configuration file from scratch. At least, it worked that way two or three years ago.

Then the OP can save a copy of the current sendmail.cf file, make the above changes, run diff on the two files and incorporate the necessary changes into the original file and all should be well. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Hans du Plooy wrote:

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:02 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Alas, you must learn to use that file... that's why I switched to postfix.

If I remember correctly, there is a macro file that gets converted to the final configuration - but it is not easy to read, either. You have a gift for understatements.

I'm following the advice in the docs - adding the network to access file, i.e.

192.168.16 RELAY

but it simply doesn't seem to have an effect - I think there's some other setting somewhere taking preference over the default RELAY value, but I have no clue where to start looking.

I think the file needs to be mapped to a hash database the same way you need to do for postfix access maps, if they are not regexp maps. Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 15:20 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:

I think the file needs to be mapped to a hash database the same way you need to do for postfix access maps, if they are not regexp maps.

Yip, makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access according to the sendmail docs. It is accepting smtp connections (sorry, forgot to mention this in my reply to Ken's mail), even from foreign networks, as long as the mail goes to valid recipients. The problem is it doesn't allow relay. I have the relay bits set up as it should be (at least to my understanding from the docs) but it seems some setting is overriding it. Thanks Hans