Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:44, Mark Haney wrote: >>> 3) When you telnet to your system, where are you telnetting from? By >>> default, the redhat supplied access file should allow relaying from >>> e-mail sumitted locally. i.e. localhost. >>> >> Jason and Steve, I think you are right on allowing relaying through >> localhost. I bet that's exactly why I can get the web interface to >> send email to outside addresses, but not send one to the list from an >> outside email and have it sent. But now, I've hit a wall. I've read >> the docs suggested by Jason, but the relaying issue isn't mentioned. >> In answer to Steve's question above, I was telnetting to the box from >> my laptop, ie not localhost. That being said, if the mailing list is >> sent an email from an outside email to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' the >> list won't relay it will it? Even if mailman relays to localhost? > > Well, IIRC, you're sending mail to a list which is actually a Mailman > system alias. Once Mailman receives the mail, it then sends mail out > to the list members. Since Mailman sends the mail from localhost, > you need the ability to relay from localhost. It's not as if you > have to allow relay inbound from other hosts. > > I wasn't pointing you at the docs regarding the relay issue. The > docs contain information on setting up your aliases properly. That's > the part most folks usually trip up on. I really don't think > relaying is an issue. It's likely that your user aliases aren't set > up properly. Since sendmail doesn't recognize the user for inbound > mail, it considers it to be an attempted relay. But don't hold me to > that. ;-) > > -- > Jason Dixon, RHCE > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net
I really don't get it. It's beyond bizarre, but then I'm having one of those weeks. Okay, here's the situation. Jason, you are right, I think. I checked the /etc/aliases file and it looked fine. I re-ran /usr/bin/newaliases just in case and restarted mailman. Now, I _changed nothing_ but this time instead of using my hotmail account to test it, I used my home account. Guess what? It worked. Does anyone on this list use mailman and has a problem with Hotmail? Thanks for the help again. I don't know what's different now, but it seems to work. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
