[SunHELP] Sendmail..

[Jim Pennino]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:26:07PM +0000, Chris David wrote:
> Hi
> Iam having a solaris box running Sol8 (say Machine X) which is hidden to 
> outside world. It cannot send messages using its own smtp (blocked in 
> firewall and highly secured). This machine is using another maiserver (Say 
> Y) which can handle mail for this server. But this mailserver is set so 
> that only authenticated users can send and recv. mail to avoid relay. When 
> iam sending mail from the hidden server using
> mailserver, it says it needs authentication. The problem, when machine X is 
> contacting the mail server as root at X.somedomain.com?
> Is there any way i can configure in the hidderserver's sendmail.cf a valid 
> user name and passwd, so that the mail should route throuh that user?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 
> 
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I don't think so. When sendmail forwards mail to another server, there
is no associated user.

You could add machine X to machine y's accessdb file.

-- 
Jim Pennino