Re: Victim of VSNL's new policy

[Yashpal Nagar <yash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Joseph,
I did exaclty what u said but all in vain....
makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access
after adding my domain as per your recommendations and restart the sendmail by 
/ec/rcd./init.d/sendmail restart...OK
But same problem. :-(((

Plese help

Regards,
Yash Nagar

It still says relaying denied.

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, George Joseph T wrote:
> Dear Yash,
> 
> In your /etc/mail/access file put this two lines:
> 
> From:mydomain.com		RELAY
> mydomain.com			RELAY
> 
> and then run 'makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access'
> 
> If you are using the above file then there is no need to put any thing in
> the /etc/mail/relay-domains file
> 
> This will solve your relaying problems over Sendmail for your own domain.  
> Now any user with his email id configured as username@xxxxxxxxxxxx in his
> mail client will be able to relay through your server.
> 
> Now to receive mails addressed to your domain, the MX record for your own
> domain in the DNS server should point to your online sendmail server (I
> hope you have a valid Internet IP address) and then:
> 
> In your /etc/mail/sendmail.cw file put:
> 
> mydomain.com
> 
> Restart Sendmail and that will solve your mail receiving problems.
> 
> Regards
> 
> George Joseph
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Yashpal Nagar wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > I am running sendmail 8.9.3 on linux box . Now as per VSNL's new
> > policy they don't allow  to relay any mails even if you are using dialup from
> > them (Correct me if i am wrong) .Only allowed to who have someacoount@xxxxxxxx
> > like... of email address.
> > 
> > So now i want my online server to receive my domains mail as well as to act as
> > an SMTP for these domains.
> > I tried by putting 
> > mydomain.com in /etc/mail/relay-domains & putting
> > mydomain.com RELAY in /etc/mail/access and run the 
> > makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access
> > command all ....., but the it says relaying denied...,
> > 
> > Can someone tell me how to configure sendmail to act as an smtp to certain
> > domains only.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Yash
> > 
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