On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Greetings GNU/Linuxer's, > > I am hoping someone might be able to help me with the access_db > feature in sendmail. Here's what I did to try and get it to work. I > made a file /etc/mail/access containing one line followed by a newline, > is the newline ok to have in there? (username changed to protect the > guilty) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] REJECT
Okay you NEED to have: localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY in the file as well > makemap hash access < access > > Then I edited my sendmail.mc(inserted at bottom of this message) and > ran sendmailconfig and said 'Y' to use the current sendmail.mc file. > The config ran with no errors. Then I said yes to restart sendmail with > the new config. Then I wrote myself an e-mail and tried to send it off. > But the mailq command said 'Connection refused by localhost'.... Add those lines and do all that agin. Yours Tony. /* * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the * same level of thinking we were at when we created them." * --Albert Einstein */

