[CLUE-Tech] sendmail frustrations

[Dave Anselmi]

Mike Staver wrote:

> Ugh, I can't seem to figure this out.  I have been editing
> /etc/mail/access to look like so:
>
> #Mike & Jen's DSL
> 216.150.207.155                 RELAY
>
> That's my ip address... I then restart sendmail, and expect to be able to
> send email through smtp from my new DSL ip address with Viawest.  I've
> added ip addresses to /etc/mail/access a million times before, and this
> has always worked - except one time.  I had a friend who had DSL with
> earthlink before, and I added his ip only to get the same error about
> relaying being denied.  Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??

Where is the sendmail server you're working on?  If the above is your DSL IP,
then I assume the sendmail is out on the 'net somewhere.  If it's on your end
of the DSL, then you probably have NAT going and your address is different.

Dave