sendmail_enable="NO" /"YES"/"MAYBE" ?

[Rob]

Richard Shea wrote:
> Thanks to both of you for your replies however this has raised another
> question ! ... (see below)
> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:16:54 +0200, "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg"
> <listsub at 401.cx> said:
> 
>>Konrad Heuer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Richard Shea wrote:
> 
> [Original Question snipped]
> 
>>>Yes, sendmail_enable="YES" will do the job.
>>>
>>>FreeBSD sendmail respects the TCP wrapper config file /etc/hosts.allow;
>>>you can limit access to sendmail there (look at "man 5 hosts_options").
>>>
>>
>>Checkout /etc/mail/access, it allows you to control who is permitted to 
>>relay trough your server.
>>
> 
> Well I discovered I think that if I don't use /etc/mail/access in fact I
> cannot send mail through the FBSD box. (I get "550 5.7.1 ... Relaying
> denied"). So I went an looked at /etc/mail and there is a access.sample
> but not a plain access file so I copied and edited access.sample to
> include a line ...
> 
> 192.168.10.4 OK
> 
> ... and rebooted but still I get the same error. On the system console I
> get a more verbose form of the same message but also "lost input channel
> from SS11232 [192.168.10.4] to MTA after rcpt" which doesn't sound too
> good to me.
> 
> Am I using the access file correctly here ? Am I right in thinking that I
> MUST use the access file or could I just ignore it ? Should I have
> renamed access.sample to access ?
> 
> Thanks again for your help so far and any other help would be welcome.
> 
> regards
> 
> richard.
> 

Hi Richard,

You're almost there, change it to: 192.168.10.4 RELAY

this link to the handbook should be very usefull for you too.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html

good luck

Rob Evers