FW: Victim of VSNL's new policy

[InfoSys <ahmad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ALL

I am also facing the same problem as mentioned by Mr.Yash in bellow attached communication .

If anybody have got the solution, pls inform me accordingly !!!

P.S, Dear Yash, If you are through with solution pls. send the same to me

waiting for positive reply ;

regards,
Ahmad

-----Original Message-----
From: George Joseph T [mailto:shibu@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 1:06 PM
To: linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] Victim of VSNL's new policy



Dear Yash,

Give me the entries of your /etc/mail/access file, /etc/sendmail.mc and
the portion of your /var/log/maillog file where it says "relaying
denied".  
You can send it to me privately (off the list) at shibu@xxxxxxx

Regards

George

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Yashpal Nagar wrote:

> 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
> > 
> >
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> > 
> > 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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