Re: Chuck (moongroup)

[Chuck Mead <chuck moongroup com>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, David S Edwards spewed into the bitstream:

> At 11:04 PM 7/31/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Gerry Doris spewed into the bitstream:
> >> I downloaded and installed your latest sendmail rpm.  Since I installed it
> >> I have been getting relay errors from localhost.  It says it isn't a valid
> >> domain.  I checked and relaying from localhost is enabled by default.  I'm
> >> not sure how to fix this???
> 
> Is there an entry for localhost in your /etc/hosts file?  Also have you
> looked at /etc/mail/access to see if localhost can relay?
> 
> On a side note, when I upgraded sendmail with Chuck's new rpms, the
> /etc/mail/access file did not get updated correctly.  I'm not sure if
> that's suppose to happen automatically or not with the rpms.  What did
> happen for me was that the correct number of entries from my old ip_allow,
> name_allow, and relay_allow were copied, but the values were not copied
> correctly, so relaying didn't work for me until I corrected that.

Thank you David... this is exactly the kind of thing I need to hear. Which one
did you install? 11 or 12?

Thanx!

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