[vps-mail] Testing relays.ordb.org

[Steve Yates <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

	OK all you experts, I just know I'm missing something simple.  In my
.mc I have:

FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org', `"550 Email rejected due to sending server misconfiguration - see http://www.ordb.org/faq/\#why_rejected";')

I have rebuilt the .cf file and restarted sendmail.  There is a whole
section added to the .cf for the above.  According to...

http://www.ordb.org/faq/#usage_sendmail

...if I set up in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.2  [reversed-ip].relays.ordb.org

Then Sendmail should refuse the connection right?  If I do that and use pine
to send a message to a local user it is accepted.  Okaaay, maybe it's not
connecting on 127.0.0.2 I say.  So I added my PC's IP to /etc/hosts as:

[forward-ip]  [reversed-ip].relays.ordb.org

and Sendmail happily greets an SMTP connection from my mail client:

250-example.com Hello 34.85.15.24.relays.ordb.org [24.15.85.34], pleased to
meet you

...and allows delivery to a local user without authentication.  D'oh!  What
did I miss?

Thanks,

- Steve Yates
- ITS, Inc.
- WHO CARES where Carmen Sandiego is?

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