On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:53:26PM -0800, Gordon Pritchard wrote:
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 13:24, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote:
(reason: 550 5.7.1
... Relaying denied) I can "fix" the problem by removing the SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST from my sendmail.rc.config
I don't remember changing anything to cause this "Relaying denied" to start happening, but perhaps I messed something up before I left.
Your ISP has made some changes, ostensibly to crack down on spam. You could ask them for some details, but many ISP's have clueless people who answer the phones... :-(
Yes, you are probably right. I thought the error message was coming from my sendmail, but it is probably coming from the ISP (road runner).
For your reference, in case it helps, here are a couple of lines from my sendmail.cf (in this case, I'm a standalone user at home. If my wife sends e-mail, and doesn't want to be masqueraded as me, she'll use KMail or Netscape, with their own built-in SMTP stuff, which bypasses what I'me setting here in sendmail):
# "Smart" relay host (may be null) DS
This is exactly what I get by removing SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST and is the "solution" I wasn't quite happy with (some email services refuses my messages). Another change I get in sendmail.cf is the following: # persistent host status directory O HostStatusDirectory=.hoststat Without a smart host, the above is commented out.
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DMgordon.pritchard@shaw.ca
I though this was only supposed to contain a domain name, not a full email address. I tried it both ways and it didn't make any difference. Seems that sendmail ignores everything but the domain name.
My ISP is happy, and I don't get recipient-bounces (because my outgoing From: *does* resolve, in case they do a name-lookup).
In my case, the mail was rejected even though the From: was set to a "real" name. Other things in the header identified my internal network name. I had to use SMARTHOST to make that pert of the header use a "real" name. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net