Thanks Jon and Ashley, I've made the changes you recommended and I'll test to see if it will work.. I know it should never come to that, but there has never been a problem until now.
Thanks again Greg On Mon, 04 Mar 2002, you wrote: > Linuxconf is not an ideal tool for manipulating Sendmail.... You should make > sure that you are using an up-to-date version of sendmail and then you will > need to setup your sendmail so that it knows all the "local" names that are > used for you mailserver. > After that, you can setup allowed relays via the file: /etc/mail/access. If > you have problems at that point put in your ip address and the key word > ALLOW. Of course Ashley is right, it should never come to that! > > Jon Carnes > --- Original Message: Saturday 02 March 2002 02:25 am --- > > Hi, > > > > I have just been bombarded with those dreaded relay spammers. My setup is > > RedHat 6.1, Sendmail with Kmail front end, and Apache. > > > > To get Mailman-2.0.8 working on my setup, I had to "enable relay control" > > in Sendmail so that mailman would be able to send out messages to the list. > > Things have been working as expected with messages sent to the list and > > messages going out to the members of the list. > > > > Today I had to go into Linuxconf and to the Sendmail part to "disable relay > > control", by doing this, all messages sent to the list are killed off > > because Sendmail thinks the messages are spam messages (which they really > > are) but not those dreaded relay spam messages that some people take > > enjoyment to send around. > > > > I have read most of the documentation to find no mention of this occurance, > > maybe I skipped over the part without knowing or maybe it is not mentioned > > anywhere. > > > > Does anyone know how I can get arround this problem with Sendmail or > > Mailman. > > > > TIA > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users