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in thread How does one override 550 relays for Mail::Sendmail?

First, mailservers are not a toy. If your mailserver is always connected to the net, you should be aware of what you're doing. O'Reilly offers an excellent Sendmail book, that should help you learn. Next, if the mailserver is on the same machine as the script engine, it shouldn't be a problem. I can't tell from here, why you get 550s, but what does your /etc/mail/access say? Something like "127.0.0.1 relay"? That would be the correct entry for localhost.
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RE: RE: RE: Re: How does one override 550 relays for Mail::Sendmail?
by PipTigger (Hermit) on Jun 21, 2000 at 14:15 UTC
    I didn't have a mail/ in my /etc/ so I grepped for "relay" and found exim.conf which seems to contain the appropriate mail settings. Do I need to restart Inetd somehow so that these changes (ie. allowing localhost relays) can take effect? Thanks very much for your help. TTFN & Shalom.

    -PipTigger

    p.s. Byslexia is a Ditch!
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      Oh, so you're not using sendmail but exim... I don't know anything about exim, maybe it's started from inetd, maybe from some rc startup file. Do a ps -ax | grep exim to find out if it's already running, or look into /etc/inetd.conf for exim.

      HTH.
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        I just checked /usr/sbin and it appears that the executable sendmail there is a link to exim but I was under the impression that Mail::Sendmail is completely distinct from the sendmail executable and that it has it's own implementation etc. I didn't see exim in the ps but it is in the smtp section of inetd.conf ... so how would I go about reloading exim's config file then? Thanks again.

        -PipTigger

        p.s. The Legend Will Never Die!
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