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Date:  Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:36:02 -0600
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:08368] Re: POP Authenticated Relaying
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <16df01c72a85$202178f0$0301a8c0@Jerrycp>
In-Reply-To:  <459316FF.3050406 (at mark) webtent.com>
X-Mail-Count: 08368

> Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > I enabled 'POP Authenticated Relaying' and assume this is 
> the same as 
> > POP before SMTP that we ran on our old RaQ 4's, but it does 
> not seem 
> > to work. The first time I chose save in the GUI, I did get an error 
> > message in the footer claiming it could not write to the 
> sendmail.cf 
> > file, but the setting did save. I also re-saved it again 
> and did not 
> > receive the error any more. I receive relaying denied when 
> trying to 
> > send mail after successfully checking mail. I am using the 
> > admin (at mark) myhostname as the e-mail account I'm testing with. The 
> > 'poprelayd -p' shows my originating IP and I can 
> successfully telnet 
> > to port 25 on localhost and send the same message no 
> problem. Is there 
> > something I'm missing?
> Well, I figured this out by comparing my existing RaQ 4 server 
> sendmail.cf and finding the pop before smtp relay entries 
> were missing 
> on the new server. So I guess the GUI was not writing the sendmail.cf 
> file after all although it only said there was a problem 
> once. Question 
> now becomes why is the GUI not altering my sendmail.cf file 
> when saving 
> the changes?
> 
Do you have IP addreses for your server in
  Server Management -> Network Services -> Email -> Advanced.
   Relay Email From Hosts/Domains/IP Addresses (optional

Gerald