Sendmail FC2

[Paul Howarth]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Did you add the names of the hosts which you approve to do relaying ?
> 
> # cat /etc/mail/access
> # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
> # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
> # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
> # package.
> #
> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
> localhost.localdomain           RELAY
> localhost                       RELAY
> 127.0.0.1                       RELAY
> 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0       RELAY

The access database does not support the use of netmasks like this. Since 
localhost and localhost.localdomain should both resolve to 127.0.0.1, this 
access database can be reduced to:

127.0.0.1		RELAY
192.168.1		RELAY

Paul.