[plug] Re: RELAYING DENIED

[Lindsay Allen]

Hi Leon,


On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > I could use some help with a sendmail problem. I have a new Debian box
> > acting as smarthost for an NT mail server.  The NT box has a private net
> > IP so the Debian box has an MX record pointing to the NT box.  Nothing
> > special here.
> 
> Ummm... shouldn't the _Debian_ box be the MX target, and then relay it
> to the _private_ NT box? Otherwise, the outside world's SMTP clients
> won't be able to see the NT box.

I guess you could do it that way, but surely my way is legal.  The outside
client can not contact the NT box, so the mail goes to the next best MX
which is my Deb box.  Now all I have to do is send it on, but sendmail
accuses me of relaying.


 
> > But when mail destined for the NT box arrives, I get a message about relaying
> > being denied.  Here are two log entries for one such message:
> 
> > Feb 18 16:51:25 gw sendmail[2348]: QAA02348: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> > arg1=<igaynor at comoshs.wa.edu.au>, relay=root at mentor.cbcfreo.wa.edu.au
> > [203.91.66.225], reject=550 <igaynor at comoshs.wa.edu.au>... Relaying denied
> 
> > Feb 18 16:51:25 gw sendmail[2348]: QAA02348:
> > from=<root at mentor.cbcfreo.wa.edu.au>, size=46, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0,
> > proto=ESMTP, relay=root at mentor.cbcfreo.wa.edu.au [203.91.66.225]
> 
> > Does the message mean that the Debian box will not forward the mail, or
> > is the NT box refusing it?
> 
> Add a Cw line for the NT box in /etc/sendmail.cf maybe?

I tried that, but then the Deb box treated the mail as being for *it* and
it still did not get to its destination.

Thanks for the interest.

Lindsay
sendmail newbie
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