Re: [filtered-ww] [vps-mail] Pop before smtp

[Weldon Whipple <weldon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Mark A. Sharkey wrote:

> I have a pocketpc trying to connect to a vps2 server to send/receive
> mail.  The pocketpc mail environment does not allow for SMTP
> authentication.  On the vps1 servers, pop before smtp authentication
> worked fine for the pocketpc.  On the vps2 server, I see the following
> error in the log files:
>
> Aug 21 22:14:07 prenet sm-mta[22124]: h7LMDxw2022124:
> m41a69bd8.tmodns.net [216.155.166.65] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN
> during connection to MTA
>
> I have both the above domain name and the IP address defined in the
> /etc/mail/access file with RELAY (and ran make after editing it).  I
> also have the domain declared in the /etc/mail/relay-domains file (and
> restarted sendmail).  However, I continue to get the above error.

Try adding a line like this to your mc file in the /etc/mail directory:

FEATURE(`relay_mail_from')

and make, make install, and make restart ...

Here is what the cf/README says about the relay_mail_from feature:

=============================================================
Allows relaying if the mail sender is listed as RELAY in
the access map.  If an optional argument `domain' is given,
relaying can be allowed just based on the domain portion
of the sender address.  This feature should only be used if
absolutely necessary as the sender address can be easily
forged.  Use of this feature requires the "From:" tag to
be used for the key in the access map; see the discussion
of tags and FEATURE(`relay_mail_from') in the section on
anti-spam configuration control.
=============================================================

You will probably need to tag the LHS in access.db with "From:", like so:

From:soandso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	RELAY


One place you can find the entire cf/README is at:


http://www.technoids.org/cf_README.txt


There are lots of other permutations and variations on allowing relaying
...

Weldon

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Weldon Whipple <weldon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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