Setting up relaying in Sendmail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 25.06.2004 schrieb Cowles, Steve um 17:20:

> If I understand your post correctly, you simply want to add your private LAN
> address to /etc/mail/access. This would allow hosts on your private subnet
> to use your MTA to send e-mail. Something like the following should work.
> Adjust to meet your LAN address.
> 
> 192.168.9.0/255.255.255.0       RELAY
> 
> Then type "make" in the /etc/mail directory to rebuild the access database.
> 
> Steve Cowles

Steve,

the access_db does nothing about the CIDR notation. If you want to setup
access rules for nets you must use

192.168.9        RELAY

which is corresponding to what you wanted to implement by your above
line. See i.e.

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.41

Alexander


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