SUMMARY: how to deny smtp relaying with sendmail V5.6 ?

From: Tschermernig, Dieter <dieter.tschermernig_at_joanneum.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:38:31 +0200

Dear list,

here is the summary of all responses to my question (please see original
posting
below):

There seems no way to reject SMTP relaying with sendmail versions below
8.8.8.
Therefore, the only solution seems to be updating sendmail to a recent
version.

I installed sendmail 8.10.0 an its up and running fine.

Thanks to all contributors (too many to mention here...)
(especially for telling me that it´s not only me who can not
read that funny cf - file :)

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original Posting:

Dear all,

Since I am not an absolute Unix guru, I might have to apologize for the
simplictiy of this question....

We have a DEC Alpha Server running an old sendmail version (5.6.6). I need
to deny smtp relaying for all messages except those who go to local users on
this machine.

my Questions:

a) do I have to upgrade to the lastest sendmail version to do this ? (I know
it would be good to do so anyway, but the box goes out of operation soon, so
I dont want to twiggle around too much....

b) if it is possible with the old version, can anybody tell me how to do it
?


Thank you very much in advance.

regards,

Dieter


(by the way: can someone tell me how to learn reading that funny
sendmail.cf ? Is it so complicated, or am I so stupid? :)
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best regards,
Dieter

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